by KARL STEEL When I teach the Prioress’s Tale, as I did twice last semester, I have typically liked asking the students “who kills the…
Yet more Serra at, of course, the Gagosian. When is the when of a piece that corrodes? by KARL STEEL In re: grading, just wrote…
Image from the Morgan Library. by KARL STEEL Here’s one for Fumblr, the Academic Failblog: Some years ago, while chatting with my students about hunting,…
From the Friar’s Tale, Jill Mann ed. “Thow lixt! quod she, ‘By my savacioun, Ne was I nevere er now, widwe ne wif, Somoned unto…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SQIXUccNl0] Thinking ahead to the two Chaucer classes I’ll be teaching this Fall, and back to a tweet from several years back: The Maniciple’s Tale,…
Realized just now: students love to talk about character motivation (“I bet Palemon was really happy that Arcite died. I know I would have been.”)…
Maybe you’ve also just graded your first set of Canterbury Tales papers. Mine were on the Physician’s Tale, where I now routinely start because of David Wallace’s…
Here’s how it worked: Well, it didn’t work, and it worked. Here’s the problem: smart phones connect us with the world and our friends, so…
Tomorrow’s the first day of Fall 2013 classes at Brooklyn College. If you teach college, you probably started this week too, and you likewise know…
Sometime either before or after the appearance of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I had an idea for a novel by the same name. Let’s…
