At the close of summer, I wrote a post on my plans to use a weblog in my MA course on gender theory in the first semester (see also this later post). I received a lot of very useful and encouraging comments, and took the plunge. The semester ended just before Christmas, student essays are [...]

Brett over at Sound and Fury needs our moral support. He’s been informed by a colleague that he has a reputation among students as “the guy that fails folks for using Wikipedia”, and now wonders whether he is doing the right thing.
I think Brett’s right, and hey, he should be proud of his reputation! I [...]

I made a course blog for the Theories of Gender and Culture course - it’s still under construction, but here it is. Update: the blog has now gone into stealth mode - only registered students can read and contribute.
I had a really good meeting with our technology-and-education person Yolande Spoelder yesterday. She made me think [...]

Via The Long Eighteenth: Tenured Radical’s Six Pieces of Random Advice for the Novice Teacher. A great post to get back into teaching mode, with lots more pieces of useful random advice in the comments.

I am thinking of using a blog in the master’s course on theories of gender that I’ll be teaching next semester. I haven’t done this before, so I am exploring the whys and hows of using blogs in education, and reading other people’s experiences on the web. I am full of questions (especially where the [...]

I am preparing a first-year lecture on the novel, centered around Pride and Prejudice. It is part of a course that introduces students to literary genres, and hands them the basic tools they need to analyse literature. Therefore, in my lecture I will concentrate on the ‘rise of the novel’ (to speak with Ian Watt), [...]

I am scouring the internet this morning, looking for an introductory book on English and American cultural history. I want to use it as a companion to a first-year course that introduces students to the highlights of English and American literature in a thematic, chronological order.
A random week from the course would for example [...]