Selected Publications

“Teaching Patriarchy Post-‘Barbie,'” Ms. Magazine

In this essay, I describe how I have created a way for students to learn about feminism even if they initially describe themselves as anti-feminist.  My class helps students harness the power of the feminist lens to discover how the patriarchy is operating as a defining force in their lives.

 

“Moving from Zero Draft to Essay Writing: A Scaffolded Response Exercise, ” Journal of Response to Writing

This article describes an exercise designed to demystify the writing process and provide students with helpful guidelines for moving from concept to explication through the process of developing their zero draft into a completed essay.

 

 “Using Reflection and Metacognition to Develop Your Half Essay,” Writing Spaces 

This assignment is a selection from the Writing Spaces Assignment and Activity Archive, an open access companion resource to the Writing Spaces open textbook series.

 

“Lake Ontario in Midwinter” and “Charleston, South Carolina”

Two poems published in anthologies of the journal Diagram. Charleston, South Carolina” was published in (Some From) Diagram: An Anthology of Text, Art, and Schematic, edited by Ander Monson in 2003. It was published in Washington, DC by Del Sol Press. “Lake Ontario in Midwinter” was published in Climate Controlled: An Electronic Anthology of Northern Literature, edited by Ander Monson in 2002. It was published in Tuscaloosa, AL by Diagram/New Michigan Press.