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Hearing/Producing/Performing Oral History
-CASE Conference 2015: The Storyteller (February 2015)

 Constructing a Conversation on Race
-Oak Park River Forest High School: Best Practices (November 2014)

 

 

Cultural Criticism

  • About-Face
  • AfterEllen
  • Ann Powers – NPR
  • COLORLINES
  • Dave Zirin – The Nation
  • Dazed
  • FAIR – blog
  • Feministing
  • Film Comment
  • Grantland
  • Jezebel
  • New York Times – Arts
  • PopMatters
  • Reading the Pictures
  • Rebecca Traister – The Cut
  • Rookie
  • Roxane Gay
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Atlantic
  • Women's Media Center

RSS English A: Our Stories

  • Today, Tonight, Tomorrow
  • Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
  • REAMDE Book Review – Neal Stephenson
  • Book Update: The Electric Kingdom
  • enders game

RSS AP Lit: Story Power

  • From Big Foot to Astrology: Uncovering the Interconnectedness of Olga Tokarczuk’s Novel and William Blake’s Work
  • Animals or People?
  • Dentistry and Vodka
  • White Women Tears
  • Janina is no Better than the Rest of Them

RSS American Lit: True American Stories

  • Analysis of Gone With The Wind
  • Qualifications to be pretty
  • No amount of roses or champaign will mask this blatant sexism
  • Espionage at its finest
  • The United States of Tom
The top image is the amazing art of Dave Gibbons from the Watchmen graphic novel (1987): Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias at his controls for understanding and manipulating the world. He takes his cultural criticism and his apocalyptic morality a bit too far, but we can still take inspiration from his intellectual effort, right? :)

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