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Tonight's 240 class is packed! We're going to be discussing rhetoric in advertising, with a nod to some of the key definitions of "culture" and the goals of cultural studies that we've covered in other classes. I've asked students to bring in a selection of three print advertisements, one of which may become the subject …
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Today in World Literature, we're going to take a stab at connecting Petrarchan lyric verse to South Asian vernacular devotional lyric--I asked students to write in their journals about similarities and/or differences they noted, so I really want to have a chance to discuss their ideas. I want to start, though, by going over the …
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[September’s Teaching Carnival--and the beginning of year five of the TC--is from Tonya Howe, Assistant Professor of English at Marymount University. Tonya blogs at Cerosia and can be reached at thowe [at] Marymount [dot] edu or @howet on Twitter. ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return …
Teaching Carnival 5.01 By Prof. Hacker SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 ORIGINAL POST [September’s Teaching Carnival--and the beginning of year five of the TC--is from Tonya Howe, Assistant Professor of English at Marymount University. Tonya blogs at Cerosia and can be reached at thowe [at] Marymount [dot] edu or @howet on Twitter. ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, …
Tomorrow I meet for the first time with my EN490: Major Authors course, which I'm so excited about! It's a larger class than I'd anticipated, but hey--the more the merrier. And, the more folks I can turn to into followers of Patricia Highsmith, the better! This is a writing intensive class, so we'll be doing …
ProfHacker surveys some creative approaches to bloated syllabi, and Mary Beth Hertz warns us not to try for superhero status in the new academic year. At Inside Higher Ed, Library Babel Fish weighs in on the bloated syllabus as academic Terms of Service contracts. Billie Hara at ProfHacker inaugurates a new beginning-of-term ritual: "prepare to …
This evening I met for the first time with EN240: Intro to Visual and Cultural Study, and I was a little off my mark, I think, with the first half of class. I wanted to stage an ice-breaker that would lead us in to a discussion of how we conventionally understand identity, community, and culture. …
I felt very good about the way EN203 went this afternoon--what a great way to start the new term! I've got a pretty full class, though a handful of folks were missing today, and about 7 or so students contributed something to the conversation. We discussed the syllabus, as per usual, and I went over …
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Tomorrow I will meet for the first time with two of my three classes, EN203: World Literature 1450-1800, and EN240: Introduction to Visual and Cultural Study. I've had the real pleasure of teaching EN203 a few times before, so I'm looking forward to adding some new texts and removing a couple I've grown--how shall I …
WordNet [Fellbaum, 1998] is a heavily-used lexical resource in natural-language processing and information retrieval. More recently, it has also been adopted in Semantic Web research community. It is used mainly for annotation and retrieval in different domains such as cultural heritage [Hollink et al., 2003], product catalogs [Guarino et al., 1999] and photo metadata [Brickley, …
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