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Thinking Hope Under Erasure

May 3, 2021

Hope Long ago, when the Earth was young, I enrolled in a poetry workshop led by Liz Ahl, and one of the assignments was to

Salvage

April 22, 2021

1. The toll of the last year on my teaching, work, and life is evident in silence. I last wrote here in November, shortly before

Poor. Queer. Studies.

November 15, 2020

Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies is the most exciting book about academia that I have read since Cathy Davidson’s The New Education, and for me

The Value in the Public Good

October 16, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed many fissures and failures in U.S. society, some of which have long been obvious, but were more easily ignored in

Instead of Rigor: Play and Risk

September 15, 2020

Buildings and bridgesare made to bend in the windto withstand the worldthat’s what it takes.All that steel and stoneis no match for the air, my

Show & Tell

July 17, 2020

Last weekend, I took an online seminar (via The Shipman Agency) led by Garth Greenwell, one of my favorite contemporary American writers, titled “Some Recent

Habits of Mind, Habits of Mine

July 15, 2020

I’m participating in Plymouth State University’s Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC), and this post is a response to the following prompt: “Write (and share if

The Value of Uselessness

May 28, 2020

I’m participating in Plymouth State University’s Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC), and this post is a reflection on one of the first activities of the

Supporting Openness Should Not Mean Supporting Piracy

March 29, 2020

The Internet Archive has decided to respond to the corona virus crisis by creating what they call the National Emergency Library, and they have gained

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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