Author: Aaron Colton

Aaron Colton is a Marion L. Brittain Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has written on politics and popular culture for Paste Magazine and The Outline. His research on experimental 20th- and 21st-century American fiction and reviews have appeared in Studies in American Fiction, Postmodern Culture, and College Literature.

Nine Questions on Identity, Multimodality, and Poetry with Caroline Dowell-Esquivel

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This article is supported by a 2020 Poetry@Tech Pedagogy Grant. In my introductory writing and communication course “On Becoming a Writer,” students read Alexander Chee’s 2018 essay “The Autobiography of My Novel.” The central concept of the essay is what Chee calls a “prosthetic voice.” Unable to write the autobiographical… Continue reading

Against Argument; or, 25 Notes Toward a Descriptive Pedagogy by Way of Stephen King and Jacques Rancière

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  1) Twitter can be a pretty disingenuous place. The tricky thing is that to call attention to any one tweet, however atrocious, risks making a mountain out of a molehill. But as a teacher of writing, literature, and communication, I’ve found myself returning again and again to one particular… Continue reading