**(This is a copy-paste of my email, just in case you missed it)** Hello everyone, and welcome to your shiny new virtual English 1012 class.  I hope you all are safe, healthy, and not going too stir-crazy staying at home.   Our class structure will remain much the same–you will still have 2 major writing assignments […]

Dear class, I hope this message finds you well.  As you all know, all CUNY classes are currently cancelled.  Classes will start up again March 19th, but in online format only.  This will be the case for the remainder of our semester together.   I am currently working on figuring out the best way to go about […]

Dear class, I hope you found our discussion in class interesting and useful. For those of you who were absent, or if you have simply lost your copy, you can find the handout for the third Reading Response assignment in the General Resources page. The response will be due next Thursday, 3/12. Keep in mind […]

Dear class, For those of you unable to open the powerpoint on Benjamin’s essay, I am providing a pdf of the file below: For those of you who were absent (or if you would simply like to watch it again) the link to the John Berger video we watched in class can be found here. […]

Dear class, I hope you found The Machine Stops to be an interesting and enjoyable read. Looking ahead to this week, for tomorrow (Tuesday), please read Walter Benjamin’s 1936 essay “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”  It is admittedly a rather complicated text, but overall it focuses on the social and artistic effects of […]

Dear class, For tomorrow (Thursday, 2/27), please finish reading Forster’s The Machine Stops for class discussion. I would highly recommend bringing an accessible copy of the text to class (whether in print, on your phone or tablet, laptop, etc.), as we will do a bit of in-class writing. Keep in mind that your 2nd reading […]

Dear class, As you all know, I am currently out of town; however, if you have any immediate concerns or questions, please feel free to reach out and contact me. On Tuesday we wrapped up our short look into Industrial Era technological development. If you were absent, or have lost your copy, I have uploaded […]

Dear all, I hope you found our discussion of Schivelbusch interesting and useful. As I mentioned in class, our upcoming schedule now has a slight alteration. Class next Thursday (2/20) is cancelled, as I will have to be out of town. To accomodate this we will simply shift our readings back a day: so for […]

Dear class, I hope the powerpoint we went over in class helped to clarify Walter Ong’s essay a bit.  You can access a copy of the powerpoint under the General Resources tab in the header above. I’m also archiving a copy of the Wendell Berry letter we discussed there, if you’d ever like to pull […]

Dear class, I hope you enjoyed reading the excerpt from Frederick Douglass’ autobiography.  I chose this text for a variety of reasons, some of which being: 1) it provides a provocative juxtaposition to the text we read last week (the freewriting excerpt from a book entitled Writing Without Teachers — Frederick Douglass literally had no substantive teaching), […]