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"The Girl Who Lived": Exploring the Liminal Spaces of Self-Study Research with Textual Critical Partners.
Publication · January 30, 2026
Trauma, Harry Potter, and the Demented World of Academia
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The following text presents my personal experience of psychological trauma as part of regular and ongoing processes of institutional (re)socialization into academe as a pre-tenure faculty member of color. In giving voice to this experie...
Publication · January 30, 2026
Virtual Teaching in the Time of COVID-19: Rethinking Our WEIRD Pedagogical Commitments to Teacher Education
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Teacher Educators confront a professional future in which online instruction will play an increased role in student learning. As instructional activities are delivered online, a critical challenge for teacher educators will be to contin...
Publication · January 30, 2026
The Everyday Creativity of Authentic Classroom Assessments
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This paper examines the everyday creativity embedded within authentic classroom assessments. While not all authentic assessments are necessarily creative (i.e., novel, innovative, and contextually appropriate), I demonstrate everyday cr...
Publication · January 30, 2026
From “Slow” to “Being ‘Lazy’ and Slowing Down” and the Impact on Student Learning
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This paper presents a case study on the measurable impact of a decolonized approach to the Slow Movement on student learning in a graduate seminar. The study operationalizes principles of Being Lazy and Slowing Down (BLSD)—that is, to m...
Publication · January 30, 2026
testimonial injustice ‘out here in the projects’ – misrecognising victimhood in the bed intruder meme
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In the wake of ‘Black Lives Matter’, this paper examines the concept of testimonial injustice and the prejudicial stances held towards victims that diminishes the credibility of their claims and the social support they receive from the ...
Publication · January 30, 2026
Con Artist: Non-Cosplay Participation at Popular Culture Conventions as an Arts-Based Method of Inquiring Into Resistance and the Undoing of Rules
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I conduct an inquiry into my participation as an African American woman at two popular culture conventions, the 2017 Dragon Con (Atlanta) and the 2018 annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America (Kansas City). Thr...
Publication · January 30, 2026
Community input to the European Strategy on particle physics: Searches for Permanent Electric Dipole Moments
Publication · January 30, 2026
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