I am incredibly fortunate to be able to work with an amazing community of students, colleagues, and administration. I know that sounds like I'm just paying lip service, but, actually, The University at Albany is a pretty great place to teach. I teach in the Pro…

I have been working on refining a pedagogy of awe in the last few years. This approach in some ways goes against the grain of today's notions of student-centered instruction--but only slightly. 

A pedagogy of awe has a few important principles. 

1) I need to esta…

I challenge my students with difficult readings of the great authors of the past because sublime language and ideas produce sublime individuals. I have pulled from Moby-Dick, Nietzsche, Plato, Aristotle, Jung, Orwell, Douglass, DIckinson, Sartre, Homer, MIlton, El…