teaching | Marginalia

The choice to get a PhD used to be pretty black and white — now, it’s a much more complicated decision.

The worst part about pursuing..

Corita Kent teaching with LIFE Magazine, photographed by Mary Anne Karia in 1965. https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2015/11/20/corita-kent..

I tend to talk with my hands a lot, so I imagine this is what my students see when I lecture on Zoom.

For me, one of the best things a..

My cute, but largely unhelpful FTA (Feline Teaching Assistant)

I’ve been accused countless times in my life of dreaming too big, havin..

My cute, but largely unhelpful FTA (Feline Teaching Assistant)

I’ve been accused countless times in my life of dreaming too big..

This is an actor. No actual vehicles were harmed during filming.

We live in tumultuous times so one never knows what to expect when on..

It’s been a wild ride so far!

This is my bittersweet final post on Marginalia! My time sharing my experience with you all is coming to..

Working on one of my ten-foot drawings in the studio.

Hello again from this (my final) semester at Columbia College Chicago!

We are..

Greetings again after three very short weeks, reader!

There is a strange mix of adrenaline and anxiety coursing through me at the momen..

One of the aspects that drew me to Columbia’s Creative Writing master’s program was the opportunity to teach a composition class. A bi..