by Katie Reinberger, Anthropology, ’18-19 As the end of the Fall 2018 semester nears, I have been busy finishing up class projects and preparing for finals. This fall I was not TAing for a writing-intensive class, so it was the perfect semester to take WIP’s writing pedagogy course. This way, I had the whole semester…
by Matthew Burkhalter After graduating from the University of the South, I worked for a year as the Conrad Aiken-K. P. A Taylor Intern (read: copy editor) at the Sewanee Review, the literary quarterly published by the university. The editor during the 2010–11 academic year was George Core; he had edited the journal every academic…
by Katharine Napora, Anthropology, ’18-19 I don’t care if, in a year from now, my students remember which hominin is associated with the Acheulean stone tool tradition, which dicotyledon species have semi ring-porous wood, or what the appropriate symbology is for relationships in a kinship chart. What I do care about is that all students…
by Claire Mills, Philosophy, ’18-19 At the beginning of each semester, no matter what class I’m teaching, I start by asking my students “What is truth?” It seems like one of those obscure philosophical questions that has no right answer or practical value and should be rightfully restricted to theoretical discussions in the classrooms of…