The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: teaching

  • Teaching Information Literacy in an Era of Misinformation

    My new courses start tomorrow, so I’m putting the finishing touches on this week’s materials. Last summer, I encountered more challenges with generative AI-composed writing than in any previous term, so this year the theme for my writing courses is AI, research, and writing. We’ll spend the whole term considering how the dramatic increase in…

  • Clearing Space for Kindness

    “Kindness” is not a concept that I always associate with higher education, or with education in general. Learning is difficult, but that inherent challenge has been compounded by the human and thus imperfect systems that we’ve built: Grading. Ranking. Prize Days and Spelling Bees. Attendance requirements that punish the chronically ill. The endless, disheartening casualization…

  • Bonus Sunday CNF Essay: Horror in the Hallowed Halls of the Academy

    This piece is part of a collection of lyric essays that I wrote under the gentle and generous supervision of Becky Blake. U of T has a terrific Creative Writing Program Certificate through Continuing Studies; it was a valuable introduction, for me, to providing and receiving writing workshop feedback. My MFA, starting in May, will…