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The Doubleplusgoodspeak of Newspeak: Poetry and Orwell’s 1984

By Jeffrey Fallis April 20, 2017 April 9, 2021 Assignments, Lessons, and Exercises, Feature, Reflections on Teaching, Teaching, Tools & Methods

Two days after President Trump’s inauguration, on January 22, 2017, the newly-minted Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press with Chuck Todd. She discussed White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s first press briefing the night before, in which he claimed, despite the existence of much… Continue reading

The Office Hour, Chapter 19: “April Is the Cruellest Month”

By Andrew Marzoni April 6, 2017 November 29, 2017 Assignments, Lessons, and Exercises, Interviews, Podcasts, Reflections on Teaching, Teaching, The Office Hour, Tools & Methods

In honor of National Poetry Month, Brittain Fellow Jeff Fallis returns to the podcast to discuss what may be literature’s most ill-defined, misunderstood, and maligned genre. As recipients of 2016-2017 Poetry@Tech Pedagogy Grants, Jeff and I talk about some of the ways that we have integrated poetry into our composition classrooms,… Continue reading