Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. The powerful, unpredictable Q conjures a Napoleonic scenario from Picard's…
When a Facebook friend asked for tips on teaching a large class, I inventoried what I've learned about the flipped…
I reminded my Shakespeare students that I'm a full-time generalist and a part-time Shakespeare professor, and that I'm constantly comparing…
Prepping for tomorrow's first meeting of my Shakespeare class. In 1598, during Shakespeare’s lifetime, England experienced a total solar eclipse,…
I was surprised a few years ago to learn during a curriculum design meeting that I was the only faculty…
How does our 21st century understanding of mental health affect our understanding of Hamlet? As a teacher, I have for…
Just as comedians generally don't laugh at their own jokes, Shakespeare doesn't call too much attention to his own linguistic…
This fall I will be teaching Shakespeare again; but thereafter, as part of a curriculum redesign, Shakespeare will be rolled…
Shakespeare continues to be the most performed playwright in the United States, but his appeal has a global extension, and…
English is full of figures of speech popularized by Shakespeare. Some of those terms Shakespeare's interest in falconry. “Hold onto…
Verses Proposing a New Course: "Shakespeare in Context" You'll pick a modest count of Shakespeare plays-- Say, five. Three weeks to each you'll dedicate. One context week,…
By a set of strange coincidences, complicated by the history of Europe's uneven adaptation of the Gregorian calendar, April 23…
Elsinore is a game where you play as Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. She’s stuck in a time loop, a la…
1) Last night, I'm fairly certain some of the shoggoths I've been coughing up had achieved sentience. But today, fewer…
When I teach Shakespeare, I will from time to time deliver a short speech for my students, but this was…