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Timothy Scherman, Acting Chair (773) 442-5817
Academic Advisors in English are regularly assigned to new majors.
Ryan Poll, Graduate Program - Literature Track Advisor (773) 442-5824
Timothy Barnett, Graduate Program - Composition Track advisor (773) 442-5822
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Advisor Graduate Program-Composition
t-barnett1@neiu.edu
Composition history and pedagogy, critical literacy, LGBTQ literature and theory
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 200 Writing in Context
ENGL 202 World of Drama
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 210 WIP: Methods for English Majors
ENGL 335 Written Communication for Business
ENGL 375 The Essentials of Tutoring Writing
ENGL 376 Advanced Composition
ENGL 377 Argumentative Prose
ENGL 433 Seminar in Composition Theory
ENGL 434 Seminar in Basic Writing
WGS 210 Into to LGBTQ Studies
WGS 360 Queer Theory
History of Composition, Composition Pedagogy, Critical Literacy, LGBTQ Literature, Feminist and Queer Studies
PhD, MA English, The Ohio State University, 1997
BA English, University of Connecticut, 1986
"'Love Letters:' Narrating Critical Theory in the First-Year Writing Class." Open Words 7.1 (Spring 2013): 21-40. Electronic.
"Politicizing the Personal: Frederick Douglass, Richard Writing, and Some Thoughts on the Limits of Critical Literacy." College English 68.4 (March 2006): 356-81. Print.
Teaching Argument in the Composition Classroom: Background Readings. Bedford/St. Martin's. 2002.
"Reading 'Whiteness' in English Studies." College English 63.1 (September 2000). 9-37. Print.
External Publications Link
"'Love Letters:' Narrating Critical Theory in the First-Year Writing Class"
Native of Stamford, CT. Father of one son, Tyler Steinkamp.
LWH 2016 / B 147
Summer 2017 University Without Walls B 147
m-buell@neiu.edu
Writing Studies and Rhetoric, Developmental Writing, English as a Second Language
ENGL 309 Reading and Writing in a Changing Digital Economy
ENGL 427 Pedagogies of College Level Writing
ENGL 435 Assissment of Writing
ENGL 437 Computers and English Studies
Developmental Writers and Identity; Writing in Graduate College; Disability Studies and Medical Rhetorics, Multimodality and Writing
PhD English/Writing Studies, University of Illinois
MA TESL/Linguistics, Ohio University
BA Antioch College
Buell, Marcia Z. "Negotiating Rich Response Networks and Textual Ownership in Dissertation Writing" Research Literacies and Writing Pedagogies for Masters and Doctoral Writers, Eds. Badenhorst, Cecile and Cally Guerin. Brill Online Books and Journals. 2015. 221-237.
Buell, Marcia Z. "The Place of Basic Writing at Wedonwan U: A Simulation for Graduate Level Seminars" Journal of Basic Writing E-Journal (2013-2014).
Buell, Marcia Z. "Negotiaitng Textual Authority: Response Cycles for a Personal Statement of a Latina Undergraduate." Journal of Basic Writing 31(2) 5-28, (2012).
Buell, Marcia, and Park, So Jin. "Positioning expertise: The shared journey of a South Korean and a North American doctoral student." In Christine Casanave and XiaoMing Li (Eds.), Learning to do graduate school: Perspectives on academic enculturation, literacy practices, and identity. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan University Press. 2008.
Buell, Marcia. "Code-switching and second language writing: How multiple codes are combined in a text." In Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior (Eds.), What writing does and how it does it (97-122). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2004.
LWH 2019
5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
July - August TBA
Buell CV updated 5-19-2016.pdf302.95 KB
Byard
Professor, English, Women's and Gender Studies; Director, First-Year Writing Program
v-byard@neiu.edu
Composition theory and pedagogy, women's studies, LGBTQ+ studies.
ENGL 303 Contemporary LGBTQ+ Literature
ENGL 310 WIP: Introduction to Composition Studies
ENGL 371 Studies in Women's Literature
ENGL 427 Pedagogies of College Writing
ENGL 436 Rhetorics of Composition
ENGL 438 Research in Composition
ENGL 439 Stylistics
ENGL 453 Thesis Seminar in English
WGS 101 Women's Perspectives and Values
WGS 210 Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
WGS 350 Seminar in Women's Studies: Reading & Writing Women's Autobiographies
Anti-racism, transgender studies, embodiment, diversity issues in higher education.
B.A. in English and Sociology, Towson State University, 1983
M.A. in English (Rhetoric and Composition), Purdue University, 1985
Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric and Composition), Purdue University, 1993
Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies. West Lafayette, Ind.: Parlor Press, 2009.
Instructor's Resource Manual for The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. Also, Second Edition, 2000.
Vicki Byard joined the NEIU faculty in 1991. Some of the highlights of her career at NEIU have been serving as the Chair of the Task Force for Addressing the Needs of LGBTQ and Women Students (2012), receiving the Martha Thompson Outstanding Faculty Award from the Women's and Gender Studies Program (2017), serving as Chair of the Faculty Senate (2018-2020), serving as Faculty Fellow in the Angelina Pedroso Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs (2018-2020), and teaching intensive thesis-writing course to International Relations students at the University of Warsaw (2019). In her personal life, she has raised two children, volunteered for social justice initiatives, and performed stories she has written for live literature events.
Email for details.
evcantor@rcn.com
English, Composition, Literature, Cinema Studies
SCED 305 Student Teaching Supervisor
M.Ed. Secondary English Education, Loyola Chicago, 1998
BA Cinema Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, 1996
Post Masters, Education Leadership and Research, University of Illinois, Chicago
May-June Tues. 5:30 - 6:00 p.m. Thurs 9:25 - 9:55 p.m.
L-Dean@neiu.edu
Creative Writing, Poetry, Literature
ENGL 201 World of Poetry
ENGL 235 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 316 Forms of Poetry
ENGL 359 Independent Study in English
ENGL 384/385 Creative Writing: Poetry I & II
ENGL 397 Summer Creative Writing Institute
Contemporary American Poetry, Hard-boiled Literature, Working Class Literature, Satire, Popular Culture
MFA Murray State University
BGS University of Michigan
Frequently Asked Questions. Salmon Poetry (2020)
Activities of Daily Living. Salmon Poetry (2017)
Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry. Salmon Poetry (2016)
Language Lessons, Vol 1. Third Man Books (2014)
Brief Nudity. Salmon Poetry (2013)
Basic Cable Couplets. Silkworms Ink (2012)
abbrev. Beard of Bees (2011)
About the Author. Mindmade Books (2011)
I Am Spam. Fractal Edge Press (2004)
Identity Theft for Dummies. Zenith Beast Books (2003)
Selected Performances
AWP, The Art Institute of Chicago, Bucktown Arts Festival, Chicago Poetry Festival, Chicago Poetry Invasion, Poets Against the War, Poetry Cram, Midwest Literary Festival, Printers Row Lit Fest, Looptopia, Pilcrow Lit Fest, Creative Writing Institute, Series A, Orange Alert Reading Series, Writers Block, Wordeater, Revolving Door, Ipsento Reading Series, Chicago Book Expo, Excited Utterance, GCHS Writers Week, Wit Rabbit and Poetry Foundation
Professional Affiliations & Membership
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
The Authors Guild
Broadcast Music, Inc.
Midwest Modern Language Association
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
June 30-July 14
Daily noon-1 p.m. by appointment.
https://www.facebook.com/larryodean
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/larry-o-dean/23/831/b83
m-davros@neiu.edu
American literature, including African American and ethnic American
ENGL 109 FYE: Chicago's Literary Diversity: Reading Chicago's Neighborhoods
ZHON 192 Introduction to the Humanities: Race and Ethnicity
ZHON 192 Introduction to the Humanities: Combat Literature
Honors Colloquium: Classical Culture, Study Tour in Greece
Honors Colloquium: Greek American Literature (Byzantium v the Caliphate), Study Tour in Greece
Greek American literature, African American literature, Combat literature
PhD University of Illinois at Chicago
MAH Louisiana State University
BA Tulane University
Greeks in Chicago. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2009.
"The Maze: A Historical Novel." Review of The Maze. By Panos Karnezis. The National Herald. 15 February 2009.
"A Greek Stylist: History Contests with Progress and Loses." Review of Little Infamies. By Panos Karnezis. The National Herald. 15 February 2009.
"A Sense of Sacred Space." Review of Ecclesia: Greek Orthodox Churches of the Chicago Metropolis. By Panos Fiorentinos. The National Herald. 15 February 2009.
"Loss and Transformation on the Road in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex and Don DeLillo's Underworld." The Image of the Road in Literature, Media and Society. Ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, Co: The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. August 2005. 148-153.
Summer 2017 No Office Hours
VITAE 2015-2016 Michael G. Davros.pdf51.38 KB
j-doyle2@neiu.edu
Composition and business writing
MA University of Illinois at Chicago
Fall 2016 Tues/Thurs 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
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Chielozona
c-eze@neiu.edu
ENGL 222 English Literature, 1750-Present
ENGL 334 Biblical Backgrounds English & American Literature
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 383/483 Post Colonial African Literature
ENGL 480 Ethnic Literatures
ENGL 488 Africana Literature
ENGL 381 African-American Literature
Also Literary and Cultural Theories,Postcolonial Literature, Global Literature
Narrative theory, Globalization and Cultures, Feminism in Global Contexts
Ph.D. English/Philosophy, Purdue University, 2003
MFA Fiction, Purdue University, 2003
M.A. Comparative Literature/German, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 1996
M.A. Catholic Theology, Leopold Franzens University, Austria, 1989
B.A. Philosophy (Magna cum laude), St. Joseph's Seminary, Nigeria, 1984
Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women's Literature - Feminist Empathy New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
Postcolonial Imagination and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture. Lanham: Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield), 2011.
The Dilemma of Ethnic Identity: Alain Locke's Vision of Transcultural Societies. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
"Decolonisation and its Discontents: Thoughs on the Postcolonial African Moral Self" Journal of South African Philosophy, Vol 34. Issue 4 (2015): 408-418.
"Rethinking African Culture and Identity: The Afropolitan Model." Journal of African Cultural Studies. 26. 2. (2014): 234-247.
"The Open Wounds of Being: The Poetics of Testimony in the Works of Patricia Jabbeh Wesley." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. Vol. 16, No.2 (Fall 2014): 282-306.
"Death, Here I Am: Violence and Redemption in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying." Journal of Narrative Theory, 43.1. (Spring 2013): 87-107.
"Nelson Mandela and the Politics of Empathy: Reflections on the Moral Conditions for Conflict Resolutions in Africa." African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review. Volume 2, Number 1, (Spring 2012): 122-135.
"Ambits of Moral Judgement: Of Pain, Empathy and Redemption in J.M.Coetzee's Age of Iron," Journal of Literary Studies, 27:4, (2011):17-35.
"African Feminism: Resistance or Resentment." Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy XX, 1-2, (2008): 97-117.
"The Pitfalls of Cultural Consciousness." Philosophia Africana 10. 1 (March 2007): 37-47.
"Cosmopolitan Solidarity: Negotiating Transculturality in Contemporary Nigerian Novels." English in Africa. (Spring 2005):99-112.
"Resentment and the African Condition: An Inquiry." Gefame: Journal of African Studies. 2, no. 1, 2005.
The Trial of Mugabe (Novella) Chicago, Okri Books, 2009.
Survival Kit (Poems) New York: Akachic Books, 2016.
Eze CV 3 -2016.pdf236.03 KB
Latina/o & Latin American Studies Coordinator and Program Advisor
e-garcia20@neiu.edu
ENGL 218 American Literature: Beginnings to 1865
ENGL 219 American Literature: 1865 to Present
ENGL 361 Development of the American Novel
ENGL 362 US Fiction: Traditions and Counter-Traditions
ENGL 369 US Latina/o Literature and Culture
ENGL 380 Multicultural Literature in America
ENGL 471 Studies in the American Novel
ENGL 479 US Latina/o Literature
LLAS 201 WIP: Culture and History of US Latinos
WLC 414 US Latina/o Literatures
ZHON 192 Introduction to the Humanities
Latina/o Studies, Early American Literature, Gender Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, Translation, Early National Literatures, The Novel
PhD University of Florida
"On the Borders of Independence: Manuel Torres and Spanish American Independence in Filadelfia." Latino/a Studies and Nineteenth-Century America." Ed. Jesse Alemán and Rodrigo Lazo. New York: NYU Press, 2016. 71-88.
"Novel Diplomacies: Henry Marie Brackenridge's Voyage to South America (1819) and Inter-American Revolutionary Literature." Literature in the Early American Republic 3 (April 2011) p. 145 – 171
"'The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind': American Universalism and Exceptionalism in the Early Nation." American Exceptionalisms, Ed. Sylvia Söderlind and Jamey Carson. Albany: SUNY Press, 2011. p. 51 – 70.
"Roundtable: Critical Keywords in Early American Studies," Co-edited and Introduction with Duncan Faherty. Early American Literature 46:3 (Fall 2011) pp. 601-602; pp. 603-632.
On Leave 2016-2017
Email is preferred
a-goldblatt@neiu.edu
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, The Personal Essay, Contemporary Literature
ENGL 240A Elements of Style for Creative Writers
ENGL 304A Literary Editing
ENGL 305A Literary Publishing
ENGL 386/387 Creative Writing: Fiction I & II
ENGL 392A Writing/Life: Advanced Writing Studio
Short Fiction, The Personal Essay, The Novel, Autofiction, Creative Communities, Experimental Pedagogy, Cross-Genre Methodologies
MFA Fiction Writing, Washington University
Hard Mouth: a novel, Counterpoint Press, 2019.
"A Regular-Looking Man, Alone," Puerto del Sol, May 2019.
"Night Fun," FENCE, Winter/Spring 2018
"The Final Defeat of My Colonialist Body," DIAGRAM, 17.5
"Ha! I Said Quietly," NOON, 2017
"Softly, Whispery, Feathery," Fanzine
"The Era of Good Feelings," The Southern Review (audio sample)
"Person-Character," Hobart
"Paris," The Collagist
Catalpa: This is Not True, chapbook, The Cupboard Pamphlet
Email for current office hours.
AmandaGoldblattCV092019_Web_0.pdf97.28 KB
http://www.amandagoldblatt.com/CV.html
t-graf@neiu.edu
ELP 099 Developmental Writing
Faulkner and Hawthorne
MA English, Northeastern Illinois University, 1987
BA Filmaking, Columbia College, 1981
Textbook: I Can Do That, Bedford/Custom Textbook
July-August
J-Kim6@neiu.edu
Early Modern British Literature, Detective Fiction, 20th Century American and British Literature
ENGL 219 American Literature,1865-Present
ENGL 221 English Literature, Beginnings-1750
ENGL 323 Shaw and Modern British Drama
ENGL 329 Milton
ENGL 330 Shakespeare Comedies and Romances
ENGL 331 Shakespeare Tragedies
ENGL 360 Detective Fiction
ENGL 379 20th Century Fiction II, 1945-Present
ENGL 422 Graduate Seminar on Milton
ENGL 428 The English Novel
Early Modern British Literature (especially Milton), Detective Fiction
PhD University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1995
MA University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1989
BA University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1988
Edited Books:
Class and Culture in Crime Fiction: Essays on Works in English Since the 1970s (Editor), 2014
Murdering Miss Marple: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in the New Golden Age of Women's Crime Fiction (Editor), 2012
Race and Religion in the Postcolonial British Detective Story (Editor), 2005
Selected Significant Articles:
"Sabrina . . . or, the Lady?: Gender, Class, and the Spectre of Milton in Sabrina (1995)," in Milton and Popular Culture, edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers and Gregory M. Semenza (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 151-162.
"The Lady's Unladylike Struggle: Redefining Patriarchal Boundaries in Milton's Comus," in Milton Studies (35), 1997, pp. 1-20.
Acting Associate Dean
t-libretti@neiu.edu
ENGL 218 American Literature: Beginnings -1865
ENGL 219 American Literature: 1865-Present
ENGL 357 Land, Labor, and Literature
ENGL 369 American Realism
ENGL 382 Chicana/o Literature
ENGL 410 Literary Method and Practice
ENGL 430 Studies in Literary Criticism
ENGL 448D Hawthorne and Melville
ENGL 449M Studies in the American Novel
ENGL 449N Ethnic Literatures
ENGL 468 US Literary Modernism and Its Other
WGS 301E The Radical Feminist Imagination
US Literature, Working-Class Literature, Multi-Ethnic Literature, Marxism
PhD English, University of Michigan, 1995
MA English, University of Michigan, 1991
BA English summa cum laude, Cornell University, 1989
The Making of U.S. Warking-Class Literature and Consciousness: The Nations, Genders, and Sexualities of U.S. Proletarian Literature from the 1930s to the Present (forthcoming from University of Mississippi Press).
Articles and Chapters
"A Proletarian Book of Laughter and Remembering: The Cry and the Dedication and the Inter/National Class Struggle" in Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan, ed. Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao, University Press of America, 2016.
"Dis-Alienating the Neighborhood: The Representation of Work and Community in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," in Revisiting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, eds. Kathy Merlock Jackson, Steven M. Emmanuel. North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2016.
"Beyond the Innocence of Globalization: The Abiding Necessity of Carlos Bulosan's Anti-Imperialist Imagination." Kritika Kultura, no. 23 (Summer 2014). On-line.
"'Verticality is such a risky enterprise': Class Epistemologies and the Critique of Upward Movility in Colson Whitehead's The Intiutisionist," in Class and Culture in Contemporary Crime Fiction, ed. Julie H. Kim. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2014, pp. 201-224.
"'A Broader and Wiser Revolution': Refiguring Chicago Nationalist Politics in Latin Amercan Consciousness in Post-Movement Chicana/o Literature" in Imagined Transnationalism: Latina/o Literature, Culture and Identity, eds. Francisco Lomelí, Marc Priewe, and Kevin Concannon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 137-155.
"Modernism and Politics" in Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005, pp. 176-180.
Working-Class Studies Association
Modern Language Association of America
Association of Asian American Studies
Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. (MELUS)
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Libretti CV 5 2016.pdf198 KB
Ogrodowski
bogrdow@neiu.edu
As an instructor, my full responsibility is teaching, but that requires active interest and continuing academic work in the field. Recent areas I've worked on are creation of theater and poetry introduction courses, developing competence in practical online pedagogy. In the past, I've had the chance to study 18th century Lyceum culture of the American Northeast, and have taken seminars on neurology and education and the history of Chicago.
MA English Literature, Northeastern Illinois University
BAH Loyola University of Chicago
Lech Walesa Hall 2018
k-over@neiu.edu
Comparative literature, medieval British literature, medieval Welsh literature, French and Welsh romance, Arthurian literature, poststructural theory, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies
ENGL 210 WIP:Methods for English Majors
ENGL 221 English Literature: Beginnings to c. 1750
ENGL 307 Medieval Studies: Arthurian Tradition
ENGL 308 English Literature from Beowulf to Malory
ENGL 314 Chaucer and His Age
ENGL 495 Rethinking Race and Gender
WGS 201 WIP: Feminist Ideas
ZHON 192 Honors Introduction to the Humanities
Race and gender, medieval sexualities, epistemologies of ignorance, indigenous American women's writing, philosophies of identity and freedom, politics of nation and identity
PhD Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
BA Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Book Article. "Warrior Ideal or Sinful Beast? Ambiguous Sovereignty in Culhwch ac Olwen." In The Language of Gender, Power, and Agency in Celtic Studies. Amber Handy and Brian Ó Conchubhair, editors. Arlen House Press 2013. Examines the sovereign power of God and Arthur in an early Welsh Arthurian tale.
Book Article. "Hybridity Reconsidered: Rewriting the Literary Welshman in Peredur vab Efrawc." In Other Nations: The Hybridization of Medieval Insular Mythology and Identity. Wendy Marie Hoofnagle and Wolfram R. Keller, editors. Winter, Heidelberg, 2011. Examines a Welsh version of the Perceval tale in the context of distinct insular identities.
Book. Kingship, Conquest, and Patria: Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance. Routledge Press, 2005. A study of vernacular literature, medieval colonialisms, and state formation focusing on the romances of Chrétien de Troyes and three thirteenth-century Welsh tales.
Book Article. "Transcultural Change: Romance to Rhamant." In Medieval Celtic Literature and Society. Helen Fulton, editor. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2005. Assessment of the genres of romance/rhamant from a postcolonial perspective.
May-June Tues/Thurs 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Assistant Professor, Graduate Coordinator, Undergraduate Advisor
r-poll@neiu.edu
U.S. literature and culture, critical theory, popular culture and cultural studies.
ENGL 356 The Graphic Novel
ENGL 374/476 Oil Fictions: Reading Along the Transnational Pipelines
ENGL 410 Literary Methods and Practice
Also: Cultural Studies: Theory, History, and Practice; Global Ecologies and Transnational Ecofiction
Narratives and cultures of globalization; cultural geographies and ecologies; energy cultures; working-class narratives; media studies; poetic forms
Ph.D. English with Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California, Davis, 2009
Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization (Rutgers University Press, 2012)
"The Rising Tide of Neoliberalism: Attica Locke's Black Water Rising and the Segregated Geographies of Globalization" in Class and Culture in Crime Fiction: Essays on Works in English Since the 1970s (McFarland & Company, 2014)
"The Boss and the Workers: Bruce Springsteen as Blue-Collar Icon" in Blue Collar Pop Culture: From NASCAR to the Jersey Shore (Praeger, 2012)
"Can One Get Out? The Aesthetics of Afro-Pessimism," Journal of Midwest Modern Language Association, Special Issue: "Arts and Activism" (Fall 2019)
"Neoliberal Heroes:Clint Eastwood's Sully and the Haunting of History." The Journal of Popular Culture, Special Edition: Neoliberalism and Popular Culture," (April 2018)
Scherman
Acting Chair, English Department, Audrey Reynolds Distinguished Professor
American Literature and Culture; Literary Theory and Criticism, Material Culture
ENGL 210: Literary Methods and Practice (WIP) ENGL 218: Survey of American Literature, Beginnings to 1865 ENGL 219: Survey of American Literature: 1865 to present ENGL 345: Practical Criticism ENGL 368: American Realism
ENGL 372: American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century ENGL 378: Twentieth Century Fiction I ENGL 410: Literary Methods and Practice ENGL 430: Seminar on Literary Criticism and Theory ENGL 484: Seminar on US Literature After the Cold
US Literature and Culture; History of Authorship and Publishing; Women Writers of the 19th Century, Material Culture
Ph.D. (American Literature) Duke University
The Elizabeth Oakes Smith page
Summer 2018 10-2 Always available by email
c-schroeder2@neiu.edu
Political economies of literacy, literacy philosophies and language policies.
Cultural Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
English Studies and Technology
Grammars of Standard English and Competing Discourses
Literacies and Political Economies
Seminar in Composition Theory
Summer Writing Institute (National Writing Project)
Writing Assessment
Advanced Composition
Drama and Diversity
History of Chicago Drama
Intro to Global Studies
Literatures and Literacies
Modern American Drama
WAC-Writing Center Tutoring
The World of Drama
Chicago drama, textual circulation, and political economies of literacy
Ph.D. with distinction in English from the University of Louisiana (1999)
M.A. in English from the University of Missouri (1994)
B.A. with honors in English from Southern Illinois University (1992)
Schroeder, Christopher. 2011. Diverse by Design: Literacy Education within Multicultural Institutions. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
• recipient of 2012 CCCC Research Impact Award
Schroeder, Christopher, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell, eds. 2002. ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook.
• reprinted by Heinemann in 2004
• college best-seller for Heinemann in 2002
Schroeder, Christopher. 2001. ReInventing the University: Literacies and Legitimacy in the Postmodern Academy. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
• reviewed in College English
• nominated for the 2002 David H. Russell Award sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English
Articles, Chapters, and Essays
Schroeder, Christopher. 2016. "Continuity and Community in a Cosmopolitan World: Code Switching and Its Effects on Community Identity." In Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Lines Across America, ed. Barbara Couture and Patricia Wojahn, 43-59. Boulder, CO: Utah State University Press.
---. 2010. "Web Authoring Software and Electronic Expertise." In Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications, ed. Ollie O. Oviedo, Joyce R. Walker, and Byron Hawk, 95-113. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.
---. 2009. "English Teachers We Have Known." In Transforming English Studies: New Voices from an Emerging Genre, ed. Lori Ostergaard, Jeff Ludwig, and Jim Nugent, 212-228. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press.
---. 2007. "Notes Toward a Dynamic Theory of Literacy." In Locations of Composition, ed. Christopher Keller and Christian Weisser, 267-287. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
---. 2006. "The Limits of Institutionalized Literacies: Minority Bilinguals at One U.S. University." Community Literacy Journal 1: 67-82.
---. 2005. "Natural Diversity: A Response to David Quammen." In Writing Environments: Rhetoric, Texts, and the Construction of Nature, ed. Sidney Dobrin and Chris Keller, 99-107. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
---. 2004a. Review of Introducing English: Essays in the Intellectual Work of Composition, by James Slevin. Composition Studies 32: 143-146.
---. 2004b. "The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies." In Ethnography Unbound: From Shock Theory to Critical Praxis, ed. Stephen Brown and Sidney Dobrin. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
---. 2002. "From the Inside Out (or the Outside In, Depending)." In ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy, ed. Christopher Schroeder, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell, 178-190. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook.
---. 2002. "Rereading the Literacy Crisis in Colleges and Universities in the United States." In Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, ed. Frederick J. Anczak, Cinda Goggins, and Geoffery D. Klinger, 187-192. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
---. 2001. "Academic Literacies, Legitimacy Crises, and Electronic Cultures." The Journal of Literacy and Technology, http://www.literacyandtechnology.org.
---. 1999. "Blurring Boundaries: Rhetoric in Literature (and Other) Classrooms." In Teaching in the 21st Century: Adapting Writing Pedagogies to the College Curriculum, ed. Alice Robertson and Barbara Smith, 297-311. New York: Garland Press.
---. 1998. "Writing, Reading, and Resistant Meanings: Teaching Students to Fish." Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 17: 61-72. (all footnotes were omitted without permission)
---. 1997. "Knowledge and Power, Logic and Rhetoric, and Other Reflections in the Toulminian Mirror: A Critical Consideration of Toulmin's Contributions to Composition." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 17: 95-107.
TR 12:10-1:40 p.m.
TR 3-4 p.m.
Simokaitis
c-simokaitis@neiu.edu
Creative writing, college writing, contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction
ENGL 109E FYE: Your Chicago: Write On!
ENGL 203 The World of Fiction
ENGL 395 Craft of the Short Story
Contemporary fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid forms, women's literature
MFA Goddard College
"Weaning," Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women Speak About Healthcare in America? Penultimate Press Inc.
"(A)Vocation," matchbook
"Bedazzled," Paper Darts
"The Beginning of the End," "A Rest," "Cardiac Arrest," "St. Philomena," FRiGG
"Catalog of Dreams," Natural Bridge
AWP, Tuesday Funk, Essay Fiesta, Story Club, That's All She Wrote, Women and Children First, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Loose Chicks, Annoyance Theater
June 30-July 14 Daily 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
b-white@neiu.edu
My focus at Northeastern Illinois has been in freshman composition and research writing although previous to that time, my focus was on ESL when I was teaching for The City Colleges of Chicago. In that capacity I researched many different patterns of learning and language development of non-native speakers of English. I also continue to develop and hone my craft as a writer of short fiction. In regards to literature my focus has been on 20th century American writers although I have a broad interest of literature from British 19th century romantic poets to modern European writers such as Franz Kafka to Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In all my areas of concentration as an instructor I look to engage and challenge students to think for themselves and connect what they read and write for my classes to their own lives and the world at large in which they seek to establish their profession (or conquer).
ENGL 205 Literature and Literacies
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AIPSN Position Paper on Uttarakhand Disaster
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The disaster in Chamoli District, Uttarakhand on 7 February 2021 morning, in the region around the Nandadevi Biosphere Reserve, saw a large volume of fast moving flood waters carrying ice and snow, rocks, debris and mud come rushing down from high-altitude mountains. At the time of writing on 14 February 2021, over 58 persons have tragically lost their lives and 148 persons are still missing. Most were workers in different projects in the area, along with some local villagers, and another 150 or so remain missing. Many workers are feared trapped inside the tunnel of the badly damaged under-construction ADB-funded 520 MW NTPC Tapovan hydro-electric project on the Dhauliganga river. The small Rishiganga 13.2MW hydel project on the Rishiganga river, about 4km upstream near the village of Raini where the famous Chipko movement started, was completely destroyed. At its peak, the flow was reportedly around 30,000 cumec (cubic metres per second) with a 10-15 metre wave in narrow parts of the river. The deluge continued downstream past Joshimath where monitoring stations apparently showed the waters at more than 3 metres above the previous Highest Flood Line recorded during the infamous 2013 disaster in Uttarakhand resulting from extreme rainfall over several days and flash floods. Several other hydel Projects nearby, such as the World Bank-funded 444 MW Pipalkoti dam still being built and the 400 MW Vishnuprayag dam, were also threatened but damage assessment is awaited.
The exact cause and circumstances of the disaster are yet to be fully determined. Based on what is currently known, the earlier speculation about a glacial lake burst is probably incorrect. It now seems, based on satellite imagery in India and abroad, and preliminary observations by specialist Indian teams from the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun, that a large weakened section of a rocky section of the Raunthi mountain-top fell over on an over-hanging portion of a glacier, and carried along an avalanche of large quantities of recently accumulated snow, rocks and debris. This massive avalanche-cum-landslide seems to have settled in the Raunthi river on the valley floor, blocking it for several days, and then bursting through in the deluge witnessed on the 7 February. Recent reports suggest formation of another large pool behind large amounts of accumulated rocks and debris, threatening another high river flow event.
It is indeed tragic that most of the dead so far seem to be workers in different infrastructure and hydro-electric power projects. According to both Central and State governments, these and other infrastructure projects were supposed to benefit the region. However, this has long been questioned by environmentalists, local residents as well as by many experts and civil society organizations that remain of the opinion that such projects should be scaled down and assessed carefully before being launched. Decisions need to be taken keeping in mind the precautionary principle in view of the fragile mountains, low carrying capacity of towns and other settlements in the area, and high risks posed by floods, landslides etc. At present, it is not known if there is any evidence pointing to these infrastructure projects having any role in triggering the rock and glacier break-off rock and related avalanche and landslide. But, as discussed below, they certainly contribute to the magnitude and impact of such disasters, which therefore can never be termed as purely "natural" disasters or "acts of god."
Ironically though, in the present case, these very projects and those working on them, including local villagers, have themselves become victims of a disaster.
Role of Climate Change & Infrastructure Projects
Regardless of the issue of causation, this disaster is nevertheless a grim reminder of the potential impact and dangers of mindless so-called "development" projects, ignoring all warnings and expert opinion, brushing aside environmental assessments, and implemented badly, all without thought about consequences.
Two major aspects stand out which cause, or contribute to, similar disasters in mountain areas in India especially in the Western Himalayas, namely climate change and thoughtless infrastructure and other construction projects in the region.
Man-made global warming has resulted in rapid melting and shrinking of glaciers along with melting of polar ice caps. The Himalayas are often called "the third pole" since they are the third largest reservoir of fresh water in the form of ice and snow. More recent studies, both internationally and in India, have shown that melt rates are much higher at present than in earlier decades and, in India, more rapidly in the Western Himalayas than in the East. Glacier melt often leads to formation of glacial lakes or large pools of water. Sometimes under pressure or due to external forces or impacts, the barriers of these glacial lakes break, releasing large volumes of water leading to flash flooding downstream, as was earlier speculated in the present case. Rapid melting of glaciers in India therefore lead to large-scale instability in the Himalayan region with increasing probability of increase in river water flows and flash flooding, posing a serious but as yet poorly predictable threat and imminent danger to downstream settlements and infrastructure, besides medium-term hydrological impacts on the whole Indo-Gangetic basin.
On top of this, there has been, especially in recent times, an irresponsible rush to build numerous roads, power plants and other infrastructure in the region without adequately assessing the potential environmental and societal impact, addressing the geological and tectonic instability of the region, and the carrying capacity of settlements and the hills. The Himalayas are a young and unstable mountain range, located in the most earthquake prone seismological Zones IV and V, subject to frequent landslides, with cloudbursts and flash floods carrying tons of rocks and other debris, causing havoc even normally. Even the on-going unplanned expansion of towns and settlements, beyond their carrying capacity, is already adding pressure on the regional environment through larger populations, new buildings outside the town limits, new hotels, new road construction or widening, depletion or even disappearance of water sources, and tree felling leading to loosening of soil and rocks which increases landslips and rainwater run-off leading to floods in local streams and rivers.
Rash of construction projects
The current rash of construction projects, expedited and pushed through under the present government, has taken such destruction to new and dangerous levels. A massive number of hydro-electric projects are now under construction in the region. At present there are around 100 dams in the State with many more under construction. According to some estimates, over 450 hydel projects are planned, meaning there could be one project every few dozen kilometers! Several of these are supposed to be run-of-the-river projects but, in practice, also involve at least some impounding of water and/or much construction activity. The construction of these dams and hydel projects involve tree-felling with lackadaisical compensatory afforestation, and a lot of construction, often using dynamite and other questionable techniques triggering further instability in already unstable hill regions. Construction debris are often simply dumped into the river in violation of procedure, or along the roadside in so-called "designated spots," but frequently end up in rivers below, further blocking the river flow and raising the river bed, thus increasingly the potential for flooding.
Over the years, these projects have led to large-scale protests by villagers, environmentalists and experts. In the wake of the 2013 Uttarakhand disaster, a Supreme Court appointed expert committee recommended cancellation of most of the proposed projects, which a second Committee appointed also endorsed. A third hand-picked committee thereafter appointed overturned these recommendations, but many projects thus approved continue to be under disputation. A leading expert, and Chairman of the SC-appointed committee, has opined that no dam or hydel project should be taken up in the para-glacial zone of 2,200 metres altitude or above on safety grounds.
Massive road construction is also underway, notably under the Rs.14,000 Crores Char Dham Project started in 2016 linking the four major pilgrimage sites in Uttarakhand with over 900 km of roads including the Char Dham Mahamarg highway, hotels and other infrastructure. Environmental clearance for the project was obtained in 2018 through aggressive push from the highest levels of the central government, who also amended the EIA Notification 2006 to exempt road projects under 100km in length from EIA. Using this subterfuge, the Char Dham Highway project was divided into 53 projects of under 100km length and given clearance without any environmental appraisal using the kind of norm-twisting modifications proposed in the Draft EIA 2020 Notification!
A majority of members of the packed High Powered Committee to review the project recommended keeping the road width to 10 metres, involving cutting of the hill upto 24 metres, as earlier approved by the Supreme Court which, however, had later ordered restricting road width to 5.5 metres but work had meanwhile speedily covered a substantial length of the highway at the larger width. Road cutting and scooping of hillsides have been done in a non-standard and dangerous manner including through dynamiting, often with almost vertical slopes against all protocol and sharply increasing prospects of landslides, and without stabilization and fresh plantation to help bind the slopes. Debris is also very often dumped carelessly and ends up in the river below. Speed, greater profits for the companies involved, and the headlong rush to build infrastructure, not safety, is clearly the priority.
Besides the direct damage caused in the already unstable region, all this only worsens impacts of future flooding events. Debris raises the river bed, increasing chances of flooding and submergence of riverside infrastructure and townships as happened in the 2013 disaster. Debris also enters dams and power plant races reducing dam life and damaging generating equipment.
With the rationale of boosting tourism in the region, regardless of carrying capacity and fragility of the mountain ecosystem, Kedarnath town, which suffered extensive damage in 2013, is being rebuilt with little thought to the impact on the surrounding environment and the vulnerability of the town to further flooding and other events like in 2013. Alternative suggestions such as building residential infrastructure at lower altitudes with regulated pilgrim traffic to the temple have been brushed aside.
Monitoring and observation of this region for extreme weather events, landslides and slope instability, and glacial observation, is also almost non-existent.
While there is some indication that there is some slowing down of dam-building and hydel projects in the region, in so many other ways various highly risky and environmentally damaging infrastructure projects continue to be undertaken in this eco-sensitive area. It is essential that this disastrous course be reversed without delay; otherwise we will be left only with post-disaster analyses in future.
In light of the tragedies of the 2013 and 2021 disasters in the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, a safety and environmental review should be urgently conducted of all hydro-electric, road building and infrastructure currently underway and planned, based on which these should be suitably modified or cancelled.
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P. Rajamanickam, General Secretary, AIPSN gsaipsn@gmail.com, 9442915101 @gsaipsn


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There were more than 3,500 architect, interior and design projects submitted for the first ever Dezeen Awards.
The international Dezeen Awards will identify the world's best talent, showcasing the most unique pieces.
A total of 207 interior design projects have now been selected for the long list including a revamp of a house built by Frank Gehry, a loft apartment in a former tank station and the offices of IKEA's creative team.
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The shortlist will be announced in August and it will be judged by a panel of leading industry figures, including Terence Conran, Je Ahn of Studio Weave, DH Liberty founder Dara Huang and India Mahdavi.
In the design projects category, a total of 171 entries were submitted including an array of quirky pieces such as a table cloth made from flexible concrete cloth and a garment that could allows humans to breathe underwater.
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The architecture long lists have also been announced and include Swiss firm Christ & Gantenbein, UK studio Jamie Fobert Architects and Mexican office Rojkind Arquitectos, while contenders for emerging architect of the year include US studio The Living and South American office MAPA.
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Junior designer Torsten Power's success story on design apprenticeships
For most artists the pathway into the art industry is through a university degree or foundation course, but junior designer Torsten Power took the apprenticeship route.
Torsten who has worked as a junior designer at Ocado is now venturing into the freelance world.
"After leaving school, I did an apprenticeship because at this point in my life I was really interested in coding, so I signed up to a recruitment agency in the hope they would find something in web development for me", he said.
"I'm a strong endorser of the apprenticeship system but it is still relatively new in this country and therefore doesn't always work entirely as intended.
"I was placed in an apprenticeship with an ad agency in Shoreditch to do some coding for a company", Torsten said.
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It was then Torsten realised coding wasn't an area he wanted to explore and he decided to go into graphic design.
The 20-year-old said: "I never looked back after this. It is funny because throughout the whole time I was into the coding stuff, my granddad, who is an artist and designer, would always say I would go into something creative and design related.
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After finishing his apprenticeship, Torsten spent time practicing and producing designs, fiction companies and creating brand identities to enhance his portfolio.
Torsten's portfolio: Brand Showcase
He said: "It was tough and quite nerve-racking as I don't have a degree or any other type of official design qualification and I got told by countless people that I was making a mistake by not going to university.
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Torsten is hoping to do more personal projects and keep up with the freelance work.
He said: "As someone who ended up doing a job I love so much almost completely by accident, I try not to set in stone too many goals for myself, as I know how unpredictable life is.
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Graphic designer wins Graphite Pencil award at D&AD's New Blood festival 2018
Graphic designer, Charlotte Anderson-Barrow impressed the judges from D&AD's New Blood Festival 2018 with her London Bollards project and took home with her a Graphite Pencil award.
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London Bollards project won her a Graphite Pencil award, which, according to D&AD's website, means that the designer met the three most important criteria "a good idea, well executed, and relevant to the brief".
Charlotte is currently working freelance from her home studio named "Studio Stax" in Essex, whilst looking for placements/employment with London agencies.
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Designer creates modern take on the Bible and reflects on issues found in society
June Caldwell, is a recent graduate of BA Hons Graphic Design at Glasgow Clyde College. June not only has agreat appreciation and understanding of white and negative space, but knows every Simpsons quote there is. Now having graduated and recently exhibited at D+AD New Blood, June aims to focus on her design practice to explore and develop the skills she has acquired in education. June states her desire revolves around editorial and publication design "I am just at the beginning of my career, but I would love to end up in publishing or editorial design one day, as this is where my passion truly shines."
June's focus within design is understanding and implementing the beauty and intelligence of typography. This was recently tested through her collaboration with author Alison Page on her illustrated children's book "The Westie Fest". This project gave June the opportunity to design and create the typographic layout and hierarchy throughout.
We spoke to June about her final major project: Consume. Consume is a modern take on the traditional Bible, reflecting on issues found in today's society, it explores the idea of the consequences of consuming too much of one thing and how it can have a negative effect on our physical and emotional health. June used the concept 'the Seven Deadly Sins' to allow a format that is relatable, as the concept of sinning has been consistently characterised through the media. Each sin echoes on a individual issue found in contemporary society, such as over-consuming alcohol, eating fast food too often or even the social media craze of "clean-eating". To bring together the concept of sinning and over-consumption, June used her typographic knowledge to form an A5 perfect bound book.
June explains the ideology behind the A5 Zine was because of its similarity to the bible in its size, shape and form. We asked June about the materials and techniques used to creative the book.
"The cover of the Bible is typically a black leather with gold letter foiling. To reflect on this holy book in a modern way, I used GF Smith's Plike paper, which has a rubber-like texture. A clear toner effect was used on the cover heading to have a greasy-look, which can be seen when moved in and out of light, reflecting on the message of "whoever conceals their sin does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy", which is stated on the first page."
June transformed simple images of food into graphic shapes, shown at the start of each chapter and reflects on the number of sins discussed. The reasoning behind simplifying each food was to discourage the target market from taking part in these unhealthy habits. June tells us "I did not want the food and drink discussed to be appealing because I wanted to discourage the target market from taking part in these unhealthy habits. Therefore, I turned simple images of food into graphic forms"
You can see more of June's work at – junetaylorc.com
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Graduate designer invents egg themed cafe
James Rich, a recent graduate of University of Gloucestershire's course in BA Graphic Design, has made an independent cafe working solely in egg dishes. Shell Shock is an innovative and unique brand that correlates with its target audience of young adults through informal language, bold aesthetics and positivity.
James' main interests revolve around brand communications, promotional material and copy writing, however he often works with packaging designs and corporate identities. James' current objective is to pursue a career in the design industry with the knowledge and skillset he has developed throughout education.
Context: Trendy cafes with quirky themes are becoming increasingly frequent in towns and cities around the world. From breakfast cereals, to board games, themed cafes are constantly opening to fill gaps in the market and appeal to a wide range of audiences.
Brief: I set myself the brief of creating my own independent, themed cafe that appeals to young adults in urban areas. Rather than blend in with the themed cafe category, I wanted to create a personality that sets my brand apart from the competitive landscape.
Shell Shock: The Shell Shock style is inspired by video games and cartoons, a modern design style that has been adapted to suit a different medium. A collaboration with MyProtein combines the main benefits of eggs (protein) with a brand loved by gym-goers. This expands our audience into new areas, whilst giving a visual representation of how a Shell Shock product could look in a supermarket. The eggnog flavour protein powder and protein bars are a clever way of tying these two brands together. Shell Shock has endless potential to grow – features such as: menus, toilet signs and interior features of the cafe are all in the works as I continue to expand this project and continue my enjoyment of working on it.
See more of James work over at his Instagram – Jamesrichdesigner
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Designer Morten Olufsen visualising the endless possibilities of the internet
Morten Olufsen is a 27 year old Graphic Designer from Northern Norway now establishing his design career in London, where he just finished his bachelor degree in Graphic Design at Middlesex University.
Morten recently exhibited at D+AD New Blood, a non-profit advertising and design association, inspiring the next generation of creative talent through the New Blood exhibition. Morten showcased his final major project from university "Internet Searching Experience". Morten explains how the internet can be such a complex thing, due to its endless limits and possibilities and how it inspired his latest project.
"The internet can be quite overwhelming and for me, just a simple search for something particular can take me on a long journey through new windows, new tabs and endless links that can be clicked, videos to watch, the distractions are everywhere. In the end I forget what I was searching for and not aware about how much time I spent doing everything else but what I intended to do. So, I wanted to visualize this experience by taking the reader through more and more "windows" and let them eventually become so many that they stop being individual windows and more a pattern of virtual chaos"
Internet Searching Experience
Through his project, Morten wanted to create the feeling of diving into the internet and make these windows and all this chaos turn into something different. He goes on to explain how he turned this information in to something visual. "I ended up with these really cool looking spreads which I added text to. These were words I had in my notebook that I wrote while doing research about our relationship to the internet, and how it takes us to this chaotic world we don't really manage to navigate without getting lost in the process."
Morten's work reinterprets the obscure, producing meticulously researched projects that span the digital world we live in. In order to communicate and display the complexity of the internet and the bombardment of information we receive from our screens, Morten created striking imagery consisting of a monotone color palette, focussing on twisting, combining and manipulating geometric shapes presented in the form of a zine.
You can see more of Mortens work at: Www.behance.net/mortenolufsen
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Chicken shop girl reveals her 5 golden rules to kickstart your creative career
Amelia Dimoldenberg, also known as the CEO of Chicken Shop Date, revealed in a talk held at New Blood Festival organized by D&AD her 5 rules to help those who are starting their career in the creative industries.
Amelia Dimoldenberg at New Blood Festival 2018
If you haven't heard of the Chicken Shop Date already, then you should know it's Amelia's YouTube channel where she posts videos of herself going on embarrassing dates in chicken shops with grime artists and other popular figures from UK's music scene. She "dated" (or interviewed) on her channnel celebrities such as Maya Jama, Big Narstie and Chabuddy G, a fictional character very much loved by Britain.
Chicken Shop Date: Amelia interviews Chabuddy G | Copyright: Chicken Shop Date YouTube
What makes her channel unique is her rather awkward personality mixed with her ironic sense of humor, both of which came across evidently even in her talk entitled "How I turned my side project at uni into a career?". This extraordinary combination renders her content hilarious and very relatable to everyone who went on a date that didn't go too well.
The Chicken Shop Date started for Dimoldenberg as a side project she did during her Fashion Journalism course from Central St. Martin, only she turned it into a career. Her YouTube channel helped her start collaborations with big companies such as Channel 4 and Nike.
Here are Amelia's golden rules to develop your creative career:
#1. Don't be afraid to ask for help
When Amelia started working as a journalist for a magazine, she met other creative people with all sorts of different skills. And she made the courage to ask them to help her create her dream project – a satirical form of journalism. So her channel is the result of her work, but also other people's abilities. She warned, however, that you have to be mindful and not demand too much of your connections. This leads us to the next rule.
#2. Be respectful of others
Amelia said she wouldn't have been able to realize her project without her connections. But you have to understand that they too have a life of their own, that they have their own work to focus on, and you have to be respectful of that. If you respect this rule, you are likely to gain your collaborators trust and loyalty.
#3. Persevere
Being rejected or not getting any replies can be very disheartening, to the point where you just want to give up. Don't do it if it's your dream career. You have to realize it is a long journey and being persistent is a quality you will need to hang on to if you want to make that journey worthwhile. Take Amelia for example. It took her around 2 years until she was able to secure interviews with high-profile artists. She emailed a lot of people, and sometimes she didn't get anything back. When this happens, she suggests following up with people without being too insistent. One of her emails landed her video on LadBible's page, which helped her channel grow enormously.
#4. Strive to be different
Dimoldenberg said the first comments she received on her videos were something along the lines "Why am I watching this? What is this?". But that didn't discourage her. On the contrary, those comments confirmed what she already knew. That what she was doing was something different, and that was going to set her apart from other YouTubers.
#5. Work on your own projects
If you want to start a career in the creative industries a CV and a cover letter won't do it. You need something that will show your skills and your initiative. The motto here is: show it, don't say it. That's why Amelia recommends working on a side project that will showcase your abilities as well as the fact that you have initiative, that you are a can-doer.
If you want to subscribe to Amelia's YouTube channel you can do so by clicking here. You might see her one day interviewing Drake, or at least she hopes so. Fingers crossed for her!
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Roberto Lovato: Dems & GOP Share Same Playbook on Immigration, Foreign Policy & Corporate Domination
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Roberto Lovato
author of the forthcoming book Unforgetting: A Memoir of Revolution and Redemption. He's a co-founder of the campaign #DignidadLiteraria, which has supported debate over the novel American Dirt and sought to elevate the voices of Latinx writers in U.S. literature.
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President Trump delivered his 2020 State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. The speech reprised many of the themes of Trump's 2016 campaign, including demonization of immigrants. We continue our discussion with Lee Fang, investigative journalist at The Intercept, and Roberto Lovato, author of the forthcoming book "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Revolution and Redemption." About 10 Democrats skipped the speech and a few more walked out while it was in progress, but Lovato says the Democratic establishment doesn't differ with Trump on many key issues. "Nancy Pelosi may have ripped the speech, but they both draw from the same playbook on issues like immigration, foreign policy, corporate domination. Trump knows that," Lovato says.
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Part 1: In State of the Union, Trump Celebrates Hate & Xenophobia While Touting "Great American Comeback"
Part 2: Roberto Lovato: Dems & GOP Share Same Playbook on Immigration, Foreign Policy & Corporate Domination
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, Trump also had much to say about immigration. And I wanted — let's see if we have that clip, when he talks in his State of the Union.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: If forcing American taxpayers to provide unlimited free healthcare to illegal aliens sounds fair to you, then stand with the radical left. But if you believe that we should defend American patients and American seniors, then stand with me and pass legislation to prohibit free government healthcare for illegal aliens. This will be a tremendous boon to our already very strongly guarded southern border, where, as we speak, a long, tall and very powerful wall is being built. We have now completed over 100 miles and have over 500 miles fully completed in a very short period of time. Early next year, we will have substantially more than 500 miles completed.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: That was President Trump last night. We're joined now by Roberto Lovato, award-winning journalist. Roberto, your take on the president's remarks last night about immigration, and also not only about immigration, but supposedly the huge crime wave that's occurring as a result of sanctuary cities permitting undocumented immigrants who were jailed by local — from ICE detainers?
ROBERTO LOVATO: It's become predictable. If you look at last year's State of the Union address, it's some of the same tropes, same criminals, same immigrants, stealing jobs. I mean, this is tried-and-true for them, and the Republicans are going to use it because it works for them. And Trump is also playing to the fact that the Democrats don't really have much to offer on immigration. Nancy Pelosi may have ripped the speech, but they both draw from the same playbook on issues like immigration, foreign policy, corporate domination. And so, Trump knows that.
And something that was clear to me, for example, was that Trump didn't say anything about El Paso — right? — where you had all these Latinos that were murdered, mass murdered, by a white killer who was inspired by Trump's rhetoric and that of the extreme right. And so, you didn't have any of those victims in the audience. You know, you had other victims. And we're in a very dangerous time. And I think that immigration helped Trump get started, and he's going back to it because it works for him.
And it puts the Democrats in the uncomfortable position, for example, of hiding the fact that when it comes to things like mass deportations, when it comes to things like caging children, when it comes to things like the separation of children from their mothers by the thousands, this was Barack Obama that started us on that path, not Donald Trump. And so, you know, you see it when, in the Iowa — in the Democratic debate, all the candidates run like rats when the lights go on, when it comes to Barack Obama. They don't want to touch him, because people, especially in the Latino community, know. We have the receipts of what happened with immigration and Obama. And so, Trump knows this, and he's playing that card that shows that they have nothing to offer.
AMY GOODMAN: And this whole issue, as he was talking about "criminal aliens," all the studies show that people who are not native-born are less likely to commit crimes, whether violent or nonviolent. And interestingly, as he touted the wall, just a few weeks ago, newly installed panels from the U.S. border wall fell over — this was from California — into Mexico, two weeks ago, because of high winds.
ROBERTO LOVATO: Yeah. The wall is symbolic not just of immigration. I think it's the closing of the U.S. mind. And that's the trap that I think the Democrats have fallen into, that they've played to anti-immigrant sentiment, except instead of saying racist tropes, they've said, "Sí, se puede." At a material level, at the level of the immigrant body, the tortured, the starved, dehydrated, the dead child at the river and in the desert, there's not that much of a statistical difference between Obama and Trump. And so, Trump knows — Trump's strategists know what they're doing when they're deploying immigration as an electoral tactic and part of the core strategy.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: President Trump also talked last night about Venezuela, a subject over which he hasn't been saying much in the last several months. But this is what he said last night.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Maduro is an illegitimate ruler, a tyrant who brutalizes his people. But Maduro's grip on tyranny will be smashed and broken. Here this evening is a very brave man who carries with him the hopes, dreams and aspirations of all Venezuelans. Joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And the president then pointed to Juan Guaidó, who was in the gallery and stood up and got applause from both Democrats and — I mean, not only Republicans, but, from what I can see, from most Democrats, as well.
AMY GOODMAN: That's right. There's Nancy Pelosi on the podium right behind Trump, who, within minutes, would be ripping up his speech, standing up and applauding.
ROBERTO LOVATO: This is why I started off my comments talking about the way that the Democrats use the same playbook as the Republicans. At the core level of, say, foreign policy, militarism and staging coups and economic neoliberalism, there isn't that much of a great difference, which is what I think the Sanders threat brings to both parties, because the Democrats are in check. I mean, I look at the irregularities, for example, in Iowa. I'm looking at a president who has been impeached, and I look at the appointment of a foreign leader by fiat, by tweet, and now by television, televised speech. It's harkening back to kind of a digital age Latin American dictatorship. We're watching what I would call the latinoamericanización of U.S. politics, when you have the division between rich and poor being so stark.
And so, Guaidó's being there is just their continued efforts to prop up this failed most recent coup attempt, that's been going on almost 20 years in Venezuela. I've been on the show here with both of you and talked about Leopoldo López, who is really the great eminence behind the throne of the Venezuelan right, of the extreme right, because the Venezuelan opposition is vast. It's broad. And the U.S. and Elliott Abrams, who I know from El Salvador and his support for mass murderers of children in places like El Mozote, is supporting the most extreme elements. And so, you have here the introduction of Guaidó to prop him up, but also, I think, to play against Bernie Sanders and the socialist theme.
You heard Trump referring to socialism. He repeated the term, just like he repeated the tropes of civilizational warfare, civilization. He even said the word "barbarians." So you have terrorists, immigrants, criminals — all these codewords, all this red meat, as Lee Fang said, being used for the base. I mean, again, both Democrats and Republicans play to these themes in different ways, except that, for example — I mean, they both draw from a guy named Samuel Huntington, who brought us to the age of civilizational warfare as kind of the post-Cold War narrative of a United States in decline.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Also, Trump's mention of Guaidó as the legitimate president of Venezuela, with 59 countries recognizing him, obscures the fact that there's over 100 countries that still recognize the current government of Venezuela.
ROBERTO LOVATO: Yeah, it's theater. It's all political theater at this point. It's a global political theater. And it's going to continue, because the United States still has, after 20 years, failed to destabilize and remove the Venezuelan government.
AMY GOODMAN: And, of course, you also have the complicity of the corporate media, the mainstream media. CNN, when Juan Guaidó's wife came to Washington and had a meeting with Trump in the White House, the lower third, the description on CNN, was "the first lady of Venezuela," Juan Guaidó's wife.
ROBERTO LOVATO: It really is absurd. I mean, I was on your show some years back when Leopoldo López, in 2014, tried to stage a coup, and I brought up the fact that I had been — I received death threats, with a gun included, from allies of Guaidó and Leopoldo López, his mentor. And I got calls from a guy named Agent Mike Ranger, who sounded like Captain America, curious about the death threat. And yet, I asked him, "Well, where — how do you know about this, if I didn't report it to the authorities?" He says, "I'm not at liberty to tell you, sir." So, these are really — I mean, it's a joke at one level, but you're dealing with the extreme right, extremely violent. And I encourage people to just google "Juan Guaidó" and "narco killers" or "narco murderers," and you'll see pictures of Juan Guaidó at the Colombian-Venezuelan border with people that the Treasury Department has identified as hardened mass-killing narcoterrorists.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you so much for being with us and ask you to stay with us for our next segment, award-winning journalist Roberto Lovato, here in New York. And thanks so much to Lee Fang of The Intercept. We'll link to your pieces.
This is Democracy Now! When we come back, American Dirt, the controversy around it, and why Latinx writers are now declaring victory. Stay with us.
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"Stephen Hawking once said, "Look up at the stars and not down on your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." The universe truly is a vast and perplexing place filled with an abundance of intriguing unknowns. Each of its small aspects contains abstruse mysteries. Unfortunately, due to the various challenges faced while trying to explore these enigmas, scientists are unable to analyze most of the universe and its puzzles. The objects in our solar system are one of the few things in the universe scientists are capable of exploring. These objects include the moons, planets, asteroids, and comets in our solar system. Charon is one such moon in the solar system that orbits the dwarf planet Pluto. It is a natural satellite that possesses a wide array of fascinating characteristics. These intriguing features of Charon have led to my conclusion that Charon is a place of tremendous potential and that it is essential that we further explore this natural satellite.
Charon is the largest moon of Pluto. Charon is half the size of Pluto and is the largest known natural satellite relative to the planet it orbits. Pluto and Charon are so similar in size that they are often said to be a dwarf planet binary system, a system in which two dwarf planets are orbiting each other. Much about this moon was unknown until the New Horizon's mission. The New Horizons mission was a space mission launched on January 19, 2006. The New Horizon mission gave us much-needed insight into the unique features of Charon. This spacecraft took images of Charon that unveiled the remarkable landscape of the natural satellite. The belt of fractures and canyons, large craters, groves, and faint ridges that cover Charon indicates that the moon might have had an internal ocean that had frozen long ago. The even more surprising fact is that the northern pole of Charon contains tholins, complex compounds formed through the irradiation of simple organic compounds. These unexpected discoveries hint that maybe life can exist on Charon. However, this is close to unfathomable due to the distance of Charon from the sun. If life were to form on Charon, the organisms would have to develop an immense resistance against the extreme conditions of Charon. Finding life on Charon would completely alter our understanding of life and its limits.
We have only seen the wonders of one side of this moon. The other side may contain even more astounding features that can alter our view of the whole universe. Discoveries of life on the satellite can help scientists further understand the ability of life to survive in extreme conditions. This knowledge of evolution can potentially help humans colonize the harsh terrains of other planets and moons. In conclusion, NASA must send missions to Charon so that we can acquire a better understanding of this moon and perhaps even a whole new perspective on the potentials of life.
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