Author: Kendra Slayton

Kendra Slayton is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the Writing and Communication Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Assistant Director of the Naugle Communication Center. Kendra earned her PhD in 2019 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is a scholar of medieval English literature, with a specialization in Middle English, Chaucer, and gender. Her research has been published in journals including The Chaucer Review and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction.

Perusall: Building Community and Confidence in an Online Classroom through Annotation, Part 2

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By Kendra Slayton (Continued from Part 1) Closing Distances In addition to helping students close the distance between the premodern and the modern, Perusall has been an invaluable tool for building a sense of community in my remote classroom. Students quickly begin to form comment chains, debating the meaning of… Continue reading

Perusall: Building Community and Confidence in an Online Classroom through Annotation, Part 1

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By Kendra Slayton As a medievalist, I have always felt moved by Chaucer’s optimism in the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales when he describes how into a inn came “nyne and twenty in a compaignye / Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle / In felaweship” (“nine and twenty in… Continue reading