My Five Favorite Arthurian Tales [12 minute read]
September 29, 2021
My favorite stories from Le Morte D’Arthur. … More My Five Favorite Arthurian Tales [12 minute read]
Category: Scholarship
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Review (11 Minutes)
August 24, 2021
What makes a good adaptation, and does A24’s Green Knight achieve this? … More Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Review (11 Minutes)
6 Ideas Tolkien Abandoned for The Lord of the Rings.
August 24, 2020
They say that you should promote your books by posting about things your target audience is interested in. So, naturally I’m promoting my Paranormal YA book about half-angel teenagers by writing a blog post about the writing notes of JRR Tolkien. Not like I’ve written about that before or anything, or shared fanfiction I almost … More 6 Ideas Tolkien Abandoned for The Lord of the Rings.
Famous Swords Pt 2: The World
August 19, 2020
Okay, so I’ve been meaning to do an update to that Camelot swords post for ever, because there’s a LOT of cool sword legends across the world and King Arthur doesn’t remotely have a monopoly on the things, but I’ve gotten distracted, so I haven’t had the chance. But now I’m caught up, and I’m … More Famous Swords Pt 2: The World
Magical Swords, Pt. 1: Camelot
December 14, 2019
Everyone loves swords. Even America, with our obsession with gunfighters and revolvers, loves the image of two people facing off against each other with sharpened pieces of metal. It’s iconic. Star Wars may have blasters and planet-destroying rays, but let’s be real; the really cool thing about its space wizards is their laser swords. And … More Magical Swords, Pt. 1: Camelot
ENG 5310 Readings, Week 7
March 18, 2013
It’s amazing how little work can be done in a week. This session, despite having all of TWO WEEKS to do the homework (Spring Break) for my classes, I managed to do despicably little and had to rush to get everything finished on time. I really need to learn better planning skills. And, neatly enough, that’s … More ENG 5310 Readings, Week 7
ENG 5310 Readings, Week 6
March 4, 2013
For some reason the factual titles seem to work better than the more creative ones. Not sure why that is… maybe kooky three-word titles are way too common? Anyway, I’ll try going back to the old one and see how that affects readership. This week’s readings were all about using computers in the classroom. While … More ENG 5310 Readings, Week 6
Shoes and Standards
February 25, 2013
I have a problem with Shipka’s Toward a Composition Made Whole. Specifically, I feel like I’m one of the people she’s writing against. Shipka seems not to be writing about methods of using technology and the different rhetorical implications, so much as writing about varied and experimental ways of writing. She proudly tells of a … More Shoes and Standards
The Fan Culture
February 18, 2013
Ordinarily I would title this “ENG 5310 Readings, Week 5.” But my classmate’s wittier blog titles have shamed me into something approaching creativity in my blogs. From now on I intend to use titles that actually give a sense of what I’m going to talk about. So. I quite enjoyed this week’s reading, Shimmering Literacies by … More The Fan Culture
ENG 5310 Readings, Week 3
February 4, 2013
This weeks readings on aural rhetoric were intriguing, particularly as I did all of them while listening to music. This fact strikes me not because it is particularly unusual–most of my friends listen to music while they work, and some watch movies–but because I very specifically do NOT listen to music while writing or drawing, … More ENG 5310 Readings, Week 3
