Knowledge Commons | Christina Katopodis, PhD | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/ckatopodis/activity/ Activity feed for Christina Katopodis, PhD. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a06715a613aed48bbceb68243d964640 Christina Katopodis, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1941912/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:16:49 -0500 0 e86aa121f9f72e4a6349d7ee258e36b3 Christina Katopodis, PhD's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1914929/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:41:54 -0400 0 cb6a7666aeeb442d6dcf7f435fb700a2 Christina Katopodis, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779084/ Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:13:25 -0400 0 4c6a540be5cbec6ef1147fd5fb5dd872 Christina Katopodis, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744362/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:20:11 -0400 0 3e97be81a909b690000e51da09b18008 Christina Katopodis, PhD posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726302/#acomment-1731758 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:21:52 -0400 Thank you for sharing!

In reply to - Katina Rogers deposited Syllabus: Equity, Elitism, and Public Higher Education This is a syllabus for a mixed MA/PhD level course, "Equity, Elitism, and Public Higher Education," taught in Spring 2021 at the […] ]]> f85cb4217d1732585850969a2abeaf52 Christina Katopodis, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1731757/ Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:19:29 -0400 0 60d0381e31759c8aee663600b003b0c0 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, An Activity to Put a Stop to "Students Don't Read My Comments on their Papers", on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=186 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:19:00 -0400 As a composition instructor, one of the complaints I hear most often among colleagues (and I've definitely said this myself) goes something like this: "Students don't read my comments on their papers." It feels […]

]]> 005dd9086d2d082a268a7320f54c828a Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Class Recap: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=207 Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:12:00 -0400 For today's English Composition 1 class, we read June Jordan's "Poem About My Rights," and two essays by Audre Lorde from Sister Outsider, "Poetry is Not a Luxury" and "The Master's Tools." We began by reading […]

]]> 5a658847c7f920771ac9755487dfe4fe Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, 1st Assignment: How to Write a Professional Email, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=213 Tue, 01 Sep 2020 20:35:00 -0400 In this first assignment of the year, inspired by Professor of English and History at Schoolcraft College, Steven L. Berg, students in my EC1 ALP course at NJCU will write a professional email introducing th […]

]]> 5bad184a13c1dfe41acb7a92002a0752 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, "Trust Your Students" - Remote Summit 2020, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=229 Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:27:00 -0400 On Monday, July 13, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis presented at the REMOTE summit hosted by Arizona State University. Our talk, “Trust Your Students,” was about co-learning and using active lear […]

]]> bbdee8805c8d75912cd1a957a02dac31 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Every Fall Syllabus Needs an "Or" Option, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=259 Thu, 04 Jun 2020 21:54:00 -0400 This post was originally published here on May 23, 2020.
By the end of summer, we all will have reinvented our syllabi to account for varying degrees of hybrid teaching. We will have reimagined the structure of […]

]]> c32cbe6f7f08d0a43e45db64fba14e6a Christina Katopodis, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688259/ Fri, 22 May 2020 21:05:37 -0400 0 7b64c8e085a79731c44681187781ad31 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, "This is a Nation," an Innovative Activity by Prof Llamas-Rodriguez, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=459 Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:28:00 -0500 Today on Progressive Pedagogy, we are featuring an activity designed by Assistant Professor Juan Llamas-Rodriguez at the University of Texas at Dallas, TX. The activity is called “This is a Nation,” and it dra […]

]]> 1d81926fd09a12c31edcbd5e30004eae Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Training Our Students for Working in Teams After College, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=461 Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:00:00 -0500 Today I attended "Climate Change in the News" with meteorologists Pedro Montoro of Telemundo 47 and Erica Grow, American Meteorologist Society Councilor and former evening meteorologist of WNBC in NYC. Futures […]

]]> 96f25c1b4c08651cd9d35fd619ed247d Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, How Prof Bruns Helps 1st Year College Students Speak in Class, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=463 Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:16:00 -0500 Today, in our Progressive Pedagogy Group, we recognize the superb classroom and institutional innovations of Professor Cristy Bruns, Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. Professor […]

]]> 71bab263ac3e5a2f1b5ad7134307aece Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, What Do Students Lose by Not Taking Humanities Courses? Too Much!, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=465 Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:04:00 -0500 In the latest issue of MLA’s Profession, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis argue that students lose too much when they don’t take humanities courses and that now is the time for those of us teaching in t […]

]]> 1fb71ad9c24cd149ccdbd3c447083288 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Tell Us About Your Innovative Pedagogical Method, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=478 Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:29:00 -0500 We want to feature innovative professors on this blog. Please fill out the form below to tell us about what you do that others can learn from. After you fill out the form, we'll use the email address you provide […]

]]> 270d6869c5831d72321912025342c742 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, 4 Tips for Managing Class Time Well, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=482 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 07:27:00 -0400 This blog was originally posted by Christina Katopodis on November 1, 2019. Read the original post here.
Time seems to melt away as soon as class begins. There is so much material to cover and never enough time. I […]

]]> e79503d65ee3f57fbaae056d90242170 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, A Welcoming Student-Centered Syllabus by Prof. Jill Grose-Fifer, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=484 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:49:00 -0400 At the end of the Spring 2019 term, Cathy N. Davidson posted about how much we admire Dean Anne Balsamo's syllabus for her TechnoCulture course, and now we've come across another inspiring syllabus by John Jay […]

]]> 23cf7f63d4fbfe439b5fce9c05b4cdc7 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Introduce Yourselves: Activity for the First Day of Class, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=487 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:27:00 -0400 Overview: “Introduce Yourselves,” an Exercise for the First Day of Class
Everything we do in a small seminar class depends on collaboration, even if it is only raising one's hand and contributing to the disc […]

]]> 9b662ff17984784e01c3df3821f28767 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Inspiring Way to Begin an Intro Lecture from UCSD Prof Patrick Anderson, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=489 Thu, 10 Oct 2019 14:05:00 -0400 This quarter, Professor Patrick Anderson is teaching almost 500 students in his department’s introductory course at the University of California, San Diego. Almost all of these students are first years or t […]

]]> 0639ee0eb19486c2f4512ef958973725 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Dr. Jenn Polish on Accessible Syllabus Design: Content, Assignments, Assessments, and More, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=491 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:15:00 -0400 Syllabus accessibility isn’t emphasized enough in academe. Too often, accessibility is limited to a single statement toward the end of the syllabus rather than something that is integrated into a course from the b […]

]]> 230ad8ac95c056510c5e7f5902aa18cc Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Fold/Unfold Close Reading Activity, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=514 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:57:00 -0400 Click here to view the original post with more slide images from June 13, 2019, a modified version of “Unfolding Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Birthmark’,” which I presented at the […]

]]> 8fdcc81b0b4cea6cf22aa3b6c26e50ad Christina Katopodis, PhD's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640892/ Sat, 25 May 2019 17:32:45 -0400 0 2c6d7ffa47a234c6024e16e778b22125 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Progressive Pedagogy On the Road, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=538 Tue, 21 May 2019 14:18:00 -0400 Last week, we took Progressive Pedagogy on the road to two conferences in Vancouver: Digital Democracies at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and HASTAC's Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education at the Un […]

]]> d703de54610ca73624c6a361c7bb76a7 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, A Quick Recap of Bringing Critical Karaoke into the Classroom, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=605 Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:08:00 -0400 It's hard to describe exactly what went down in class. Here's a very short recap (but it won't do it justice) before I reflect on the exercise itself:
I hit play, and opened with bisexual and pansexual futurity in […]

]]> 36465b7c6e47aa0bb26a2d53d59cab19 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Critical Karaoke Comes to "Mediating Race", on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=297 Wed, 13 Mar 2019 03:00:00 -0400 What is Critical Karaoke, you ask? Here are the rules:
(1) You get to talk about a single song,
(2) for as long as the song is long,
(3) while the song is playing in the background.
You speak while the song plays. […]

]]> 84008adb397d92c586acc3437f7d3e5c Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Event Recap: "Revolutionizing Wikipedia: A Queer & Feminist Edit-a-Thon", on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=305 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 02:00:00 -0500 This post was originally published on futuresinitiative.org on March 1, 2019. To read the original post, click here.
First, I would like to thank Megan Wacha from Wikimedia NYC for leading a workshop on Wikipedia, […]

]]> 386e95f63e0ca80f9d53609bc29a0146 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Teaching with Real-World Problems, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=622 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 02:00:00 -0500 This is the fourth post in a series on Progressive Pedagogy in which I very briefly summarize some pedagogical theory and offer an exercise (or two) that you can use in your classroom to put that theory into […]

]]> 09578f730b2c8182263c7782cacda3aa Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Entry & Exit Tickets: A Way to Share in the Intellectual Growth of Students, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=624 Mon, 04 Mar 2019 02:00:00 -0500 This is the third post of a series on Progressive Pedagogy in which I very briefly summarize a pedagogical theory and offer an exercise (or two) that you can use in your classroom to put that theory into practice. […]

]]> 500c382b54478379b248fd9e0dafe9f2 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Why Students Should Host Graduation Ceremonies, on the site Educational and Cultural Institutions https://educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=136 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:24:00 -0500 I'm taking a brief break from my #ProgressivePedagogy series to share a thought on graduation ceremonies. This post is the product of thinking through representations of race in film, award presentations and a […]

]]> 4d103394b51da089a11cf120ce705a39 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Mediating Race from the Academy Awards to Academe, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=636 Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:18:00 -0500 Today's class began with the usual passing around of table tents with our names on them, helping us all to remember one another's names. In "Mediating Race" with Professors Cathy Davidson and Racquel Gates, it's […]

]]> 2545c357e59757f4f079fcffb1402af2 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Writing Learning Outcomes with Your Students, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=638 Tue, 19 Feb 2019 02:00:00 -0500 This is the second post in a series on Progressive Pedagogy in which I very briefly summarize a pedagogical theory and offer an exercise (or two) that you can use in a classroom to put that theory into practice. C […]

]]> 278d3ce5fa2533e98e2091bf1c6e4590 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Dialogic Methods in the Classroom, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=642 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 02:00:00 -0500 This is the first post of a series on Progressive Pedagogy in which I very briefly summarize a pedagogical theory and offer an exercise (or two) that you can use in a classroom to put that theory into p […]

]]> 77155c837d7b7452d590aa8e0637dd68 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Coming to America, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=322 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 02:00:00 -0500 Opening our discussion of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America (1988) and Professor Gates's first chapter in Double Negative on February 13, Professor Davidson led us in an Entry Ticket activity in which students w […]

]]> d37ff6417a155105372044920d6858ac Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Complicating the Limits of the Viewer's Gaze in Film, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=332 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 02:00:00 -0500 We began our Wednesday class on Feb 6, with a quick inventory of the room: everyone read one sentence or short passage from the readings that they wanted to share with the class. After sharing, the Professors left […]

]]> b259e4e2f4dddeea256af79dc1a54093 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Feb. 28: "Revolutionizing Wikipedia: A Queer and Feminist Edit-a-Thon", on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=337 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:48:00 -0500 Thurs, Feb 28 @ 12-4:30 PM in Room 9204
Co-Sponsored by The Futures Initiative, GC Digital Initiatives, Teaching and Learning Center, and HASTAC at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Wikimedia NYC
Space is limited s […]

]]> 390a5e241ccc3923438a455771dcda23 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, It's Not True that We're Not Experts in "Anything", on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=646 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:47:00 -0500 Professors Davidson and Gates began our first week of our class, "Mediating Race," with a Think Pair Share question: "Write down one thing that you're an expert in and one thing that you're hoping to learn from […]

]]> f4d9c47446384a1fbef39d93bd07f32f Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Progressive Pedagogy: A Public Working Bibliography, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=658 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:10:00 -0500   
Professor Cathy N. Davidson and Futures Initiative Graduate Fellow Christina Katopodis have been crowd-sourcing favorite books on pedagogy, active learning methods, structuring equality in the classroom, and g […]

]]> 67d7e4f4c99d8fa91ce76e1c71630310 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Collaborative Agenda Setting, on the site Educational and Cultural Institutions https://educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=147 Mon, 17 Dec 2018 12:25:00 -0500 One of my favorite roles as a Futures Initiative Fellow is running our business meetings in the rotation (we rotate who runs each meeting, giving our meetings a horizontal structure in which everyone's input is […]

]]> 8d076f67837957dbea3bdbb43f1a0a32 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, End-of-Term Evaluations are Learning Opportunities, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=685 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:17:00 -0500 In addition to asking for course evaluations from my students (and Cathy N. Davidson has a great template and post about "Building a Better Course Evaluation Form"), and in addition to cautioning my students […]

]]> e079cf49364ceb662a008266dc61c27a Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Ecocritical Active Learning: One-Hour Nature Walk, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=688 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:18:00 -0500 This is a revised excerpt from a longer post published on November 21, 2016. Read the original post here.
Assigning a Nature Walk in American Lit
I teach a survey course in American Literature (origins to the C […]

]]> 22bd80d5cc3f1cb578ca67b28d418894 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Active Learning Activities You Can Use in Your Classroom Now, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=690 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:47:00 -0500 For a recent Futures Initiative event "Classrooms and Social Justice: Why Start with Pedagogy?" which was part of the University Worth Fighting For Series at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Futures Initiative Fellow […]

]]> 49c7c7efa773a55994ef7f7b670a6df2 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, In Your Lecture, Research Together, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=693 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:33:00 -0500 Originally published on October 26, 2017 in a post about teaching Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. 
Start with What Students Know
In line with my goal to teach the basics of literary studies, I g […]

]]> 2b216e381098e7ca28cf4d358223f4ce Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, A Lesson Plan for Democratic Co-Creation: Forging a Syllabus by Students, for Students, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=697 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:24:00 -0500 This is an excerpt from a longer post published on November 12, 2018. Read the original post here.
Earlier in the semester, I wrote a post about Structuring Equality in my early American Lit classroom. On the f […]

]]> ae210509bb07279ac3ef5e0af9a29587 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Meeting and Making an Archive: Journaling and Tactile Learning in the College Classroom, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=699 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:20:00 -0500 This is an excerpt from a longer post published on December 3, 2018. To read the original post, click here.
I’ve learned a great deal from Kahdeidra Monét Martin, a Graduate Center and Humanities Alliance Fe […]

]]> 9ccd66100208b8b10f0e664ed273ea1d Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Ethnic Notions by Marlon Riggs, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=356 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:04:00 -0500 Students in "Mediating Race: Technology, Performance, Politics, and Aesthetics in Popular Culture," with Professors Cathy N. Davidson and Racquel Gates, may be interested in watching Ethnic Notions, an […]

]]> 6d4a0356db6e7d263712704e5ed426f1 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Structuring Equality in my American Literature Class, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=782 Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:11:00 -0400 It’s syllabus-writing season! After some time away from teaching, time for reflection and growth as an educator, I am thrilled to be teaching “American Literature: Origins to the Civil War” again this fall. I’ve […]

]]> 0d524723e58b6f58178c7136306106a7 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, Gantt Charts, or What Academics Can Learn from Project Managers, Part I, on the site Technology, Networks, and Sciences https://technology-networks-sciences.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=200 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:30:00 -0400 [This post content is developed from another blog post originally published here.]
When I met with a colleague to talk about her Orals, she very kindly told me she had no idea how I managed all of the things that […]

]]> f1f7bb3f9daf27f13276ab9bf99c5600 Christina Katopodis, PhD wrote a new post, What I Wish I Knew Before Starting My PhD, on the site Educational and Cultural Institutions https://educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=209 Thu, 08 Feb 2018 11:25:00 -0500  
This blog post originally appeared on my website on February 8, 2018.
Now in my fifth year, writing my dissertation, I’ve had some time to reflect on my beginnings as a PhD student and the years preceding it wh […]

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