Tessera

made a bunch of students who had never read a full novel before read Beloved, Waiting for the Barbarians, Paradise, and The Other Name this semester & I'm grading their final projects now and they actually read them and thought about them and it is so sweet

Mitch R. Murray@mitchrmurray.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is going to be great & Mitch is a genius. Stay tuned for thoughts on geographical mapping, cognitive mapping, and Alexandra Kleeman

TEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE: ESSAYS FROM THE CLASSROOM Officially under contract and coming in 2028! It's a monster volume: 33 teacher-scholars from around the world writing provocative, shortform essays in the service of pedagogy

thinking about close reading, rising illiteracy, grade inflation, etc.: one, I think, under discussed component of close reading is risk taking. After teaching at the local federal prison for 5 semesters, I'm pretty comfortable saying the students there (notorious risk-takers, so to speak) are much

henlo blusky

gave my gen-ed lit class @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's process for close-reading as summarized by @profdgd.bsky.social a few weeks ago & it has totally changed how we're able to talk about the assigned reading 🙏

please, enroll in my class. we're going to have a Stukent Business Communication Simternship and it will be auto-graded

whatever else you may say about the conditions of the job, I've constructed a world where I get to spend this week teaching DeLillo and Fosse

steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The arc of the university is long, but it bends toward the business department

I have a new article about what I'm arguing is a new approach to representing problems of geological scale in literature. the piece itself is kind of a speculative argument about the speculative fiction & nonfiction of Vollmann, Millett, Abdelhadi & O'Brien, and Romo & Foster

Miscellany@miscellanyjournal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Miscellany has published its first article! The wonderful @stevenwatts.bsky.social on Speculative Analepsis and climate catastrophe. If you like it, consider buying our print issue, which comes out in March! www.miscellanyjournal.com/alreadyinthe...

steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I have a new article about what I'm arguing is a new approach to representing problems of geological scale in literature. the piece itself is kind of a speculative argument about the speculative fiction & nonfiction of Vollmann, Millett, Abdelhadi & O'Brien, and Romo & Foster

Miscellany@miscellanyjournal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Miscellany has published its first article! The wonderful @stevenwatts.bsky.social on Speculative Analepsis and climate catastrophe. If you like it, consider buying our print issue, which comes out in March! www.miscellanyjournal.com/alreadyinthe...

Miscellany @miscellanyjournal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Miscellany has published its first article! The wonderful @stevenwatts.bsky.social on Speculative Analepsis and climate catastrophe. If you like it, consider buying our print issue, which comes out in March! www.miscellanyjournal.com/alreadyinthe...

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steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 8mo ago

one important thing this website doesn't have still is friends who interact with my posts

steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 8mo ago

does anyone have, like, a worksheet they use to walk students through close reading for the first time?

steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 8mo ago

total sum of classes taught over the last 4 semesters 🙃

any shouts for the best short story of the decade by a US author (loosely defined) to begin a "Recent American Literature" survey course with so students can see what we are working towards?

first draft for thinking, second draft for highlighting all the abstractions you've included as hand waving over the thinking

no writing until I reach my daily 1400 elo on pokemon showdown, and unfortunately I suck shit at pokemon showdown