Aaron Colton, Author at TECHStyle

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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

By Aaron Colton April 20, 2020 April 17, 2020 Assignments, Lessons, and Exercises, Interviews, Poetry@Tech, Reflections on Teaching, Teaching

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

By Aaron Colton January 9, 2019 January 9, 2019 Assignments, Lessons, and Exercises, Reflections on Teaching, Teaching

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