Teaching - A Selected List of Materials on this Site
This page contains links to information about my teaching, including courses I have taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Middle Tennessee State University.
Philosophy of Teaching: A Reluctant Manifesto
To my mind, the most important aspect of this recent professional genre we call "a teaching philosophy" is that it retain a dual sense of the word philosophy: (1) a set of guiding principles that (2) is not fixed but remains open to reasoned inquiry. Thus, I regard my teaching philosophy as a set of principles that function as topics, or places of further thinking. More . . .
Current Classes (Fall 2009)
- ENGL 3000 Introduction to Literary Studies
- ENGL 6/7510 Modern Rhetoric & Prose Style (or, History of Rhetoric - Early-Modern to Contemporary)
Upcoming Class (Spring 2010)
- TBA
Rhetoric
- ENGL 6/7505 - History of Rhetoric - Ancient to Renaissance (Spring 2009)
- ENG 360 - Historical Survey of Rhetoric (Fall 2001)
- ENG 462 - Ancient Rhetoric and Its (Post)modern Reception (Winter 2001)
- ENG 8060 - Rhetoric and the Sacred: The Writings of Georges Bataille and Kenneth Burke (Winter 2006)
Criticism
- ENG 205 - Introduction to Literary Study (Winter 2004)
- ENG 339 - History of Criticism (Winter 2000)
- ENG 8070 - History of Criticism and Theory (Winter 2005)
- ENG 8060 - Rhetoric and the Sacred: The Writings of Georges Bataille and Kenneth Burke (Winter 2006)
Composition Pedagogy
Composition
General Literature
Last update: 23-Jul-2008
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