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May 27, 2014May 31, 2018 tjesse2 Literature, Teaching

Teaching the Texts of the 2010s: ALA Conference Presentation (May 2014)

Info and handouts from my presentation ("'Literature as Equipment for Living': Teaching the Texts of the 2010s") at this past weekend's ALA conference.

April 25, 2014May 31, 2018 tjesse2 Literature, Rhetoric

When Identification Fails: George C. Wolfe and Kenneth Burke

I wrote this. It won an award. Ergo, you should read it.

January 17, 2014May 31, 2018 tjesse2 Art, Literature

David Foster Wallace on TV, Literature, and Avant-Garde Fiction

Given my work with avant-garde poetry, I'm especially interested in the last 30 seconds or so of this clip, but DFW's remarks on the TV-literature relationship are also fun to think about.

October 20, 2013 tjesse2 3-for-3, Life, Literature, Teaching

3-for-3: Joyce Carol Oates is Not Messing Around

3-for-3, Episode 2.4: Why Do Teachers Quit?; E-mails From the "Atlas Shrugged Guy"; Joyce Carol Oates vs. Robert Frost

October 5, 2013May 31, 2018 tjesse2 Literature, Rhetoric

Kenneth Burke, Louis Zukofsky, and the Comic Framing of “A”-23

If Kenneth Burke was such good friends with William Carlos Williams, and if WCW thought so highly of his poetic protege Louis Zukofsky, then why did Burke consider some of Zukofsky's lines "absolutely hideous"?

September 23, 2013October 5, 2013 tjesse2 Literature, Meta, Rhetoric

Two Thoughts on My First Academic Publication

After having my first review published, some brief thoughts on the collaborative writing process, shifting notions of "audience" for young academics, and the production of "meticulous, responsible" scholarship.

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