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Acting With Inscriptions: Expanding Perspectives Of Writing, Learning, And Becoming, Kevin R. Roozen Sep 2021

Acting With Inscriptions: Expanding Perspectives Of Writing, Learning, And Becoming, Kevin R. Roozen

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This article argues for increased attention to people’s engagements with inscriptions and inscriptional practices and the long-term implications they have for the ongoing production of persons, practices, and social worlds across heterogeneous times, places, and activities. Based on a multi-year case study, this analysis examines one microbiology major’s production and use of inscriptions at the intersections of his participation in both disciplinary science and religious worship and traces the long-term consequences those uses have for his becoming as a scientist of faith. If, as Paul Prior asserts, “ literate activity is not located in acts of reading and writing but …


Contemplative Correspondence And The Muscle Of Metaphor: An Interview With Rev. Karen Hering, Christopher Basgier Sep 2021

Contemplative Correspondence And The Muscle Of Metaphor: An Interview With Rev. Karen Hering, Christopher Basgier

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Karen Hering, a Unitarian Universalist minister serving Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul, Minnesota, is author of Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within. In her book, Rev. Hering leads readers through the practice of contemplative correspondence, which she describes as “a spiritual practice of writing rooted in theology and story; drawn to the surface by questions, prompts, and ellipses; and most fully experienced when its words are accepted as invitations into conversations and relationships with others” (xx). A committed Unitarian Universalist myself, I first learned about Rev. Hering and her book from my own minister, Rev. Chris …


Responding Together And The Roots Of Resilience, Christy Wenger Sep 2021

Responding Together And The Roots Of Resilience, Christy Wenger

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Responding Together and the Roots of Resilience


Collaborative Writing For Publication In Undergraduate Literature Seminars, Ellen Scheible Sep 2021

Collaborative Writing For Publication In Undergraduate Literature Seminars, Ellen Scheible

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Collaborative Writing for Publication in Undergraduate Literature Seminars


Contributors, Wendy Ryden Sep 2021

Contributors, Wendy Ryden

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Contributors


Back Matter, Wendy Ryden Sep 2021

Back Matter, Wendy Ryden

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Back Matter


Winning Hearts, Not Arguments: An Interview With Father Greg Boyle, Christopher S. Harris, Jorge Ribeiro Sep 2021

Winning Hearts, Not Arguments: An Interview With Father Greg Boyle, Christopher S. Harris, Jorge Ribeiro

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Winning Hearts, Not Arguments: An Interview with Father Greg Boyle


Memes As Means: Using Popular Culture To Enhance The Study Of Literature, Pamela Hartman, Jessica Berg, Hannah R. Fulton, Brandon Schuler Sep 2021

Memes As Means: Using Popular Culture To Enhance The Study Of Literature, Pamela Hartman, Jessica Berg, Hannah R. Fulton, Brandon Schuler

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Artistic response is the process by which readers create concrete representations of their transactions with a text through artistic means, including visual arts (e.g. drawing, sculpture, and painting), drama, and music. Research has shown that artistic response helps students form meaningful relationships with texts, as it is a tool that encourages students to enter, explore, make connections, and enjoy stories and characters. In this article we describe an artistic response strategy that we developed and implemented. Recognizing that today’s students often know and interact with the world through social media and memes, we draw on this cultural tool to leverage …


Fostering Ethical Engagement Across Religious Difference In The Context Of Rhetorical Education, Michael-John Depalma Sep 2021

Fostering Ethical Engagement Across Religious Difference In The Context Of Rhetorical Education, Michael-John Depalma

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

At a moment in which religious diversity is ever-increasing in the United States and more than three-quarters of the world’s population identifies with a religious tradition, it is important for writing teachers to consider how to best cultivate writers who are equipped to build identifications across religious difference. This essay traces my efforts to engage this exigence in my advanced undergraduate writing course at Baylor University entitled Religious Rhetorics and Spiritual Writing (RRSW). In what follows, I outline my pedagogical goals, course design, and approach to teaching RRSW. I then share the results of a qualitative pilot study that used …


Ferris, Emil. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Fantagraphics, 2017, 416 Pages. Sousanis, Nick. Unflattening, Harvard Up, 2015, 208 Pages., Wilma Romatz Sep 2021

Ferris, Emil. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Fantagraphics, 2017, 416 Pages. Sousanis, Nick. Unflattening, Harvard Up, 2015, 208 Pages., Wilma Romatz

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Ferris, Emil. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Fantagraphics, 2017, 416 pages. Sousanis, Nick. Unflattening, Harvard UP, 2015, 208 pages.


(Emily 479) And Tra/Versing The Year, Naomi C. Gades, Paul Puccio Sep 2021

(Emily 479) And Tra/Versing The Year, Naomi C. Gades, Paul Puccio

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

(Emily 479) and tra/versing the year - Poetry


Inserting Oneself In The Story: Queer Literacy, Comics, And An Admonition To Move, Irene Papoulis, Nicholas P. Marino Sep 2021

Inserting Oneself In The Story: Queer Literacy, Comics, And An Admonition To Move, Irene Papoulis, Nicholas P. Marino

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Inserting Oneself in the Story: Queer Literacy, Comics, and an Admonition to Move


Tharp, Twyla. Keep It Moving: Lessons For The Rest Of Your Life. Simon And Schuster, 2019, 190 Pages., Helen Papoulis Sep 2021

Tharp, Twyla. Keep It Moving: Lessons For The Rest Of Your Life. Simon And Schuster, 2019, 190 Pages., Helen Papoulis

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Tharp, Twyla. Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life. Simon and Schuster, 2019, 190 pages.


Reflections From A Working Class, First- Generation Almost-Graduate, Sarah Heidebrink-Bruno Sep 2021

Reflections From A Working Class, First- Generation Almost-Graduate, Sarah Heidebrink-Bruno

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Reflections from a Working Class, First- Generation Almost-Graduate


Introduction To Jaepl Volume 26, Wendy Ryden Sep 2021

Introduction To Jaepl Volume 26, Wendy Ryden

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Introduction to JAEPL Volume 26


Volume 26 Of The Journal Of The Assembly For Expanded Perspectives On Learning, Wendy Ryden Sep 2021

Volume 26 Of The Journal Of The Assembly For Expanded Perspectives On Learning, Wendy Ryden

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL), an official assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English, is open to all those interested in extending the frontiers of teaching and learning beyond the traditional disciplines and methodologies. JAEPL is especially interested in helping those teachers who experiment with new strategies for learning to share their practices and confirm their validity through publication in professional journals.


Front Matter - Jaepl Volume 26, Wendy Ryden Sep 2021

Front Matter - Jaepl Volume 26, Wendy Ryden

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Front Matter - JAEPL Volume 26


“The Hidden Door That Leads To Several Moments More”: Finding Context For The Literacy Narrative In First Year Writing, Denise Goldman Sep 2021

“The Hidden Door That Leads To Several Moments More”: Finding Context For The Literacy Narrative In First Year Writing, Denise Goldman

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The literacy narrative has emerged as a useful genre in composition pedagogy because of the perceived bridge it provides between personal narrative and academic literacy. Although there remains disagreement among practitioners with regard to its purpose and efficacy, it continues to be a staple in the writing classroom because it has the potential to help students learn analytical skills while fostering investment through the features of a personal narrative. Recent efforts in the field, especially with regard to questions of transfer of writing, have focused on the benefits of genre and community discourse analysis as a means to help students …


Not That Bad: Lessons Women Learn In A Rape Culture, Sydney J. Selman May 2021

Not That Bad: Lessons Women Learn In A Rape Culture, Sydney J. Selman

EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement

In 2018, Roxane Gay assembled an anthology that addresses the severity of rape culture, rejecting the common belief that some sexually violent acts, compared to others, are not that bad. This collection, titled Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, compiles pieces from thirty different authors and sheds light on how the notion of not that bad contributes to a broader structural social problem involving sexual violence. This social problem, known as rape culture, is commonly defined as a culture that normalizes sexual violence and blames victims of sexual assault (“What is Rape Culture?”). In other words, rape …


Divine Cosmos: Emergent Ecology And Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Lucas R. Nossaman May 2021

Divine Cosmos: Emergent Ecology And Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Lucas R. Nossaman

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation offers a new interpretation of German naturalist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt’s profound influence on nineteenth-century American literature and culture. Humboldt was a household name in mid-nineteenth-century America, often interchangeable with his most celebrated work, Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe (1845-1859). By demonstrating that Cosmos influenced how a range of scientists and literary writers represented the natural world, this project seeks to dispel the sense of historical inevitability that surrounds the midcentury with Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) looming on the horizon. Although Humboldt’s Cosmos did help move natural science into nonreligious territory, the …


I Am Woman: The Complicated Relationship Between Fairy Mistresses, Virgin Martyrs, And The Medieval Patriarchy, Katherine A. Haire May 2021

I Am Woman: The Complicated Relationship Between Fairy Mistresses, Virgin Martyrs, And The Medieval Patriarchy, Katherine A. Haire

Masters Theses

While modern scholars cannot expect medieval authors to live up to our expectations of feminism, we can still reflect upon the ways in which they both circumvented and upheld the typical patriarchal discursive structure which dominated the Middle Ages. A cross-genre examination of virgin martyred saints and fairy mistresses will illuminate significant overlap in the treatment of magic and divine intervention and the typical female portrayal in these circumstances. Saint’s Lives and Medieval Romances occupy significantly distinct spaces in the popular literary consciousness of the High and Late Middle Ages; however, both genres offer moral instruction for the women who …


The Fragility Of White Masculinity: An Exploration Of The White, Heterosexual Male Fantasy Of Gender In Horror, Allison D. Clark May 2021

The Fragility Of White Masculinity: An Exploration Of The White, Heterosexual Male Fantasy Of Gender In Horror, Allison D. Clark

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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