As of November 2015, I’m working on a new book project: the second volume in my Undisciplined accounts, also known as the Undisciplined Dossier. The process of crafting this book requires a lot of thinking, writing and researching. I’m archiving that process here.
Process Blogging
(Role) Models
- Lynda Barry’s Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
- Brandon R. Schrand’s Works Cited: An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem and Misbehavior
- Kate Bornstein’s My New Gender Workbook
- Ivan Brunetti’s Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice
- Linda Sprague’s Imaginary Syllabi + interview about book
- Rebecca Solnit’s Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
- Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts (citations)
- Tona Hangen’s Syllabus
- Typography Syllabus
- Leanne Shapton’s Swimming Studies
Not Quit Lit
- The Rise of Quit Lit (The Atlantic)
- The Rise of Quit Lit (Slate)
- Why So Many Academics Quit and Tell
- Public Good-byes
- Goodbye to all that
Syllabus
- The Syllabus
- Writing Syllabi Worth Reading
- Annotated Syllabi
- The Open Syllabus Project
- It’s in the Syllabus
Syllabus as Contract
- Syllabus Tyrannus
- How Did We Get Into This Mess?
- The Purpose of a Syllabus
- Death to the Syllabus!
- Class Constitution
- Why my students design the syllabus
- Chapter 2 from Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- The Syllabus as TOS (terms of service)
- The Syllabus as Contract
Hashtag/public Syllabi
- #FergusonSyllabus
- #CharlestonSyllabus
- #LemonadeSyllabus
- #PulseOrlandoSyllabus
- The #Orlando Syllabus
- Public Letter To The Chronicle : Response To Trump Syllabus 1.0
- Trump Syllabus 2.0
- Rape Culture Syllabus
- #StandingRockSyllabus
- A Reading List for those in despair about American Politics
- Black Lives Matter Syllabus
- Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves
- Prison Abolition Syllabus
Syllabus Parts: Office Hours
Syllabus Parts: Trigger Warnings
Syllabus Parts: Class Rules
- Guidelines that aren’t Rules
- Rule are Tools
- Rules for Discussion
- Rules for Asking Questions
- Commenting
Fun with the Syllabus
Sample Syllabi
Teaching Portfolio/Evidence of Teaching Excellence
- Online Example of Teaching Portfolio
- Online Example of Evidence of Teaching Excellence
- The Teaching Portfolio, a handbook
- What is Evidence of Teaching Excellence?
- Preparing a Teaching Portfolio
- Summary of Teaching Responsibilities
Academic Dossier
- I’ve Posted my Applications for Tenure and Promotion
- Laurie A. Ramirez’s Portfolio for Promotion and Tenure
Lists and Manifestos
- The List App
- We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die
- A Modest Defense of the Listicle
- How List-Making Can Boost Your Creativity
- A History of the To do list
- McSweeney’s Lists
- A To Do List at the Crossings
My Lists
- What is an Education For?
- Toxic Academic Values
- A Storytelling Manifesto
- What I am NOT giving
- What are rules for?
- Influences, Ideas, Techniques for a troublemaking pedagogy
- How to Read, one strategy
- How to get Unstuck, some suggestions
- Why Read?
- Lists! Tag (from TROUBLE)
CV
- Me and My Shadow CV
- A CV of Failures (Nature article)
- CV of Failures
- Only Successful People Can Afford a CV of Failures
- Sharing the Failures
Note-taking and making
- Notes in the Margin
- White Perimeter of the Page
- What I Really Want is Someone Rolling Around in the Text
- A Year in Marginalia
Glossary
Self-Writing and Hupomnemata
Resource Guides
To Think About…
Undisciplined’s Online Archive
Feminist Pedagogy
Social Media
Trouble
Questions and Curiosity
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- More about asking questions
- Learning Exercise on Asking Questions
- Why Did We Stop Asking Questions?
- Questions, Questions, and more questions
- On Curiosity, the pedagogy of questions and not being good
- Can Asking “Why?” Lead to Resistance and Social Transformation?
- Sara Ahmed and The Promise of Happiness
- Teaching and Learning How to Question
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On Engaging
Beside/s: Critical and Creative
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- Scientific Literacy and Bullshit Detection (Scientist and Artist)
- Curiosity, Anxiety, Paranoia and Anxiety, Curiosity and David Sedaris (Worry and Wonder)
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