Central to my pedagogy is the belief that to teach writing is to teach ways of being in the world. From public or civic spaces to classrooms, forums, and other academic sites, working with language in any form requires an attentiveness to how it creates or inhibits relationships among people—how it works rhetorically. Whether in first-year composition or in a weekly practicum for new writing instructors, I think and talk about writing as work that both fosters our intellectual engagement and invites us to consider our personal stakes, our investment in ourselves and our communities.
Teaching Composition
"Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of [humans] as conscious beings, and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world."
-Paulo Freire |
Rhetoric & Writing
“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard |
