teaching | Marginalia

It’s safe to say that the semester is here. If my profs and my classmates aren’t lying to me (a thing I would never suspect them of), we’v..

What is the name for the energy that permeates a campus a week before Spring semester gives way to summer? I’m almost certain I don’t know..

The Spring Semester started on Monday, and I don’t have my first graduate class until Wednesday night. So what have I been doing these fir..

Portrait of John Keats. You don’t have to look like this to be a poet, I promise. You also don’t need to contract TB and die in your twen..

My junior year of high school I read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. It was a novella that read like poetry, with subtle..

Having officially completed our degree requirements, Columbia’s MAT class of 2015 is on the job search—a few are already hired. I regi..

Last Weekend Cohort 22 graduated…symbolically. Our families came into town, we put on caps and gowns and walked across a stage, but ..

Poetry in the park

When asked what it is like to teach at Columbia College Chicago, I tell people I cannot imagine teaching anywhere e..

Shenzhen, China. My future home and job.

I was recently speaking with my thesis advisor, Michael Robins, when he mentioned that it is ..

By time this post goes live I will be into my fourth week of Student Teaching. I am the most tired I have ever been (ever), but I am a..