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Alterted States: Envisioning The Masculin Woman, Laura L. Behling
Alterted States: Envisioning The Masculin Woman, Laura L. Behling
Scholarship and Professional Work of the Associate Provosts
To be sure, Benchley's satiric portrait does confuse our contemporary sociological notions of the differences between sex and gender...
The Political Katherine Mansfield, Lee Garver
The Political Katherine Mansfield, Lee Garver
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Ideologies that have been superseded by more enduring political discourses and literary figures who have been succeeded by greater authors are frequently relegated to the footnotes of cultural scholarship. But sometimes these lesser-known subjects of literary history, properly attended to, provide unique opportunities for a richer understanding of aesthetic developments. The study of British modernism, in particular, can benefit from a willingness to examine forgotten political-cultural relationships. Indeed, the period's extreme ideological complexity and cross-fertilization has served to mask the important political roles played by less celebrated artists in the formulation of modernist aesthetic doctrine. This is particularly true of …
Curriculum, Pedagogy, And Teacherly Ethos, Marshall W. Gregory
Curriculum, Pedagogy, And Teacherly Ethos, Marshall W. Gregory
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
In considering how curriculum and teaching influence education, it is revealing to note that most faculty members treat curriculum the way bankers treat investments. They generally spend much time, planning, and careful thought on curricular matters-reasoning here, analyzing there, relying on experience, and carefully considering both the long-term and short-term dividends of knowledge - but when it comes to teaching, many faculty members operate less like bankers and more like barnstormers, flying by the seat of their pants and guiding themselves primarily by instinct or by repeating whatever worked yesterday.
Escaping The Prison Of Singularity, Marshall W. Gregory
Escaping The Prison Of Singularity, Marshall W. Gregory
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Few human activities investigate the poverty or richness of human life or describe the mechanisms of ethical formation as fully and particularly as narratives do. In the development of our intellectual views and ethical stances, we cannot do without the guidance and examples of first-hand friends, acquaintances, and loved ones, but neither can we do without the second-hand guidance and examples of narrative friends and loved ones, for these latter supplement our need for sociability and help us fill out the education about the ways and means of being human that we receive from first-hand acquaintances. It would be wise …