Category: Faculty

March 12, 2021

Intersectionality Talks: Kishonna Gray

Interested in the representation of marginalized populations in gaming? Wondering how you can be a better ally in a digital space? Dr. Kishonna Gray plans to discuss her book Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming, and how intersectionality relates to the digital gaming sphere. The presentation will be over Zoom on Wednesday, March 17th, from 5:00 to 6:00PM. You...

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February 22, 2021

Stereotype Threat

By Asia Merrill22 February 2021 While the morality of standardized testing has been in question for at least 20 years, it’s becoming harder to ignore the ways that it weaponizes gender and racial stereotypes. Recently I came across an article, courtesy of The American Psychological Association about the dangers of stereotype threat. To summarize briefly, it uses research to demonstrate...

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October 29, 2020

Dodge Poetry Festival, Oct 22 – Nov 1

Need some pandemic positivity this week? Check out PSU English faculty member Liz Ahl‘s meditations on growing up, finding your people, and the Dodge Poetry Festival.

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October 14, 2020

COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems

PSU English alumni Cara Cristina Chanoine and Josh Nicolaisen, as well as PSU just-about-to-be-alumnus Griffin Nyhan, and PSU English faculty member Liz Ahl all have poems in a new anthology, COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems, edited by NH poet laureate Alexandria Peary. $2 from each copy sold will be donated to the New Hampshire Food Bank.

Categories Alumni/Poetry/PSU Student Works/Students/Teachers

October 13, 2020

Intersectionality Talks with Dr. Justin Shaw

Co-sponsored by PSU English and the Open Learning and Teaching Collaborative, Intersectionality Talks is a new digital speaker series at Plymouth State University that features intersectional work on literature and culture. The program seeks to provide an interdisciplinary audience and platform for engaged, public-facing work from early career scholars and an opportunity to foster conversations at PSU about new research...

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October 9, 2020

Words Unbound: Reading Globally

The PSU Canon is back! Except that, given PSU English’s commitment to Rethinking literature and blowing up the Western canon, we’re renaming this official blog The Ellen Reeder in honor of Ellen Reed. Check out this wealth of Iranian Writers curated by Niloufar Talebi, author, literary translator, interdisciplinary artist, producer, and teaching lecturer at PSU. Talebi most frequently teaches Writing...

Categories Literature/Plymouth State University/Teachers

June 8, 2018

Spring 2018 Cluster Composition Publications

Wondering how PSU’s new cluster model can revamp courses to be more interdisciplinary and innovative? Check out this round of Professor Taylore Aussiker’s Cluster Composition digital magazines! These student-created, semester-long projects integrate graphic design and publishing components into the discipline-wide required course Composition, effectively giving students the chance to build technical skills while becoming proficient writers. Check out the Spring...

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November 15, 2017

Become a Graphic Novelist – Take ST: Comic Art & Narrative This Spring

In Spring 2018, Plymouth State University will offer a Topics in Writing course titled ST: Comic Art & Narrative (CRN 31480). This course, taught by English professor Dr. Elliott Gruner, will teach students how to create stories using sequential art. Sequential art, also known as “graphic narratives”, use sequences of images as a medium for storytelling. These works include comic strips, graphic...

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November 2, 2017

New English Courses on Mindfulness and Contemplation

In the upcoming Spring 2018 semester, Dr. Karolyn Kinane will be teaching two new ENDI courses that have a focus on Contemplative and Mindful studies. The Canon interviewed Dr. Kinane to learn more about these courses. What are courses you will be teaching this spring? I’ll be teaching two General Education courses this spring. One is Curiosity, Playfulness, and Creativity,...

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October 7, 2017

What’s in an Open Textbook?

Who has the authority to make textbooks for a college course? Instinct gives us this answer: big-name publishers. This authority, however, is being challenged by educators and learners who believe that education should be not just open, but adaptable. When people talk about textbooks, they typically refer to old-fashioned paper and ink pages. These texts are static: they can’t be...

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