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Understanding the Tools

Posted in collared, lively afterwards, thimble full, talking, department, sparked, talk, dewey, delivered, fascinating, lucid, colloquium, keen, today, john, social, Research, Education, and, tom, mary, washington, featured, fallace, General on Nov 14th, 2007 Comments Off

Today’s Social Research Colloquium at Mary Washington featured Tom Fallace of our Education Department talking about his research on John Dewey. I know a mere thimble-full about Dewey and was keen to learn more, and Tom certainly delivered: it was a fascinating and lucid talk and sparked many ideas and questions in my mind. The […]

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An Introduction to John Milton

Posted in professor, time, expertise, 1800, final, john, milton, cottage, distribute, parts, the, teach, paradise, wrote, lost, called, british, literature, General on Nov 9th, 2007 Comments Off

The John Milton Cottage, where Milton wrote the final parts of “Paradise Lost.”
From time to time, I teach a course called British Literature to 1800, usually with another professor or two so we can distribute expertise, keep the sections smaller, and do some tag-team lecturing at the Big Lecture Moments during the course. I’ve taught […]

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