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antigone's noir domietta torlasco is a critical theorist and filmmaker currently working as an assistant professor of italian and screen cultures at northwestern university in chicago. she holds a ph.d. in rhetoric (uc berkeley) and an mfa in film, video and new media (school of the art institute of chicago).
reading avatars and writing walkthroughs brian desousa Video games are traditionally seen as the enemy of the serious student, a waste of time and a cause of youth violence. This paper examines how reading avatar creation andwriting walkthroughs can link gaming to writing classrooms.
just rocks derek owens one I'm sitting between a German stewardess named Ritva and a Michigan masseuse named Shanti in cow barn somewhere in rural New Jersey watching Tom Brown show us how to track mice over bare rock. There are over a hundred of us in this barn and we have been sitting on rough wooden benches for a week now, sleeping in tents in a neighboring field and attending daily lectures and demonstrations on wilderness tracking and survival skills.
The Saint of Unbelief: Shrike, Epistemology, and Postmodernism michael dibardino "I am a great saint," Shrike declares to open his seduction speech, to which he closes with a most debased and equally empowering form of a new omnipotence: "I spit on them all" (Miss Lonelyhearts 7).
the student as Student jennifer rich I would like to begin this analysis considering the way in which the student is imagined in both rhetoric and composition literature of both the early and late twentieth-century. I'm interested, in particular, in understanding the assumptions and expectations of the 'student' that underwrite discussions of student preparedness in academic discourse.