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When It’s Fun to Grade

May 3, 2023

This morning I was grading work for a 2-credit, half-semester course I teach called Cluster Learning Springboard. While going from one assignment to the next,

Disciplined Making

March 1, 2023

In The New Yorker, there is a long and depressing article titled “The End of the English Major” by Nathan Heller, an article that explores

Academic Integrity?

January 18, 2023

The ChatGPT handwringing of late has bothered me, not least because it is cloaked in a kind of shock, like the domain of higher education

Generous Thinking Now

April 22, 2022

“We’re in a bad time for everybody. There are very few models as to our way to be drawn upon in any community. There certainly

The Strength of Kindness

February 5, 2022

1. Take a moment, settle yourself, and note your immediate emotional response to these words: kindnessjoycontemplationgenerositylovepeace Now think about them in the context of your

Poor Queer Studies for a Society of Outsiders

January 6, 2022

At this year’s MLA Convention, I am honored to be on a panel devoted to “Woolf’s 21st Century Academia”, a panel sponsored by the International

The Good, The Bad, and the Interdisciplinary

October 3, 2021

Interdisciplinarity is one of those words, like openness and diversity, that many people in academia like to affirm as a positive value, but when it

Extending the Mind

September 12, 2021

This summer, I recommended to everyone I encountered that they take an hour and listen to this podcast conversation between Ezra Klein and Annie Murphy

The Grindr Model of Education

June 20, 2021

He is the corporate Silence: dread him not! No power hath he of evil in himself… —Edgar Allan Poe Reading Sean Michael Morris’s blog post

Matthew Cheney

Occasional Writings

For older writings, see the archive of my blog The Mumpsimus (2003-2023)

This page also includes posts originally published at my academic and pedagogy-focused blog, Finite Eyes (2018-2024)

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