The idea that students learn best when they write in all of their courses is probably not an idea that is hard to see to you if you’re a typically English Studies graduate student. In fact, by the time you reach graduate school, you have most likely found that you Read more…
No technology changes so much as writing: over the last several thousand years, we have moved from communicating exclusively through spoken word/gesture, to using user-created images to narrate stories or to catalog events/transactions, to a privileged and exclusive class of writers, to a world turned upside down by mass literacy Read more…
What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century? This course explores that question by looking at two major movements in literacy studies (the “Great Divide” and the social turn), and asking how a new generation of literacy scholarship, rooted in digital and global/transnational frameworks, rewrites traditional ideas Read more…
No one escapes education, although the form it takes differs dramatically depending on context. We’ve come to believe that only certain kinds of education matter, and at the university, it’s easy for faculty and students alike to believe that only certain kinds of knowledge, found in certain kinds of books Read more…
Pundits of digital media and the Internet, traditionalist bibilophiles, stand-up comedians, arm-chair philosophers — all have expressed some of our collective cultural anxieties about the Internet and what it stands for. Some worry about the often-spastic, fast-paced movement of image and word that assault us when we go to MySpace; Read more…
Welcome to the website for English 7665: Ethos & Critical Agency. As a “Special Topics Seminar” in the graduate curriculum of the English department at East Carolina University, this course functions to augment core work in Rhetoric and Composition. Students should expect an advanced course, one which moves quickly beyond Read more…