Jacobson Lecture, 2007
Following in a prestigious line of C&W scholars, including Michael Day, Dickie Selfe, Steve Krause, and Tracy Bridgeford, I presented the Jacobson Lecture this morning as part of Creighton University’s Jacobson Symposium on Teaching with Technology. The participants of the conference included teachers and other interested folks from a ton of fields including English, sociology, music and media technologies (that’s ONE strand, btw, of a local charter HS — how cool!), law librarianship, and theology. WAY cool crowd. Bob Whipple and Gina Merys were chair and co-chair of the symposium, and it was a marvelous time. My talk was called Composing from the Underground: Combining Academic and Aesthetic Modes in New Media, during which I drew on Joe Marshall Hardin’s descriptions (from the chapter in his book on English studies and aestheticism, among other places) of English departments’ binaries between high and low art cultures, as represented by literature and composition studies. IOW, aesthetic versus academic literacies — and how new media production in our classes can bridge that gap. Here’s the paper. I’d love feedback on how (and where) to turn it into an article.
Jacobson talk
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