Knowledge Commons | Lee Skallerup Bessette | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/readywriting/activity/ Activity feed for Lee Skallerup Bessette. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:42:07 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f65073cda405c4cd244d9d0cf9abcd0e Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771544/ Sat, 12 Feb 2022 03:50:49 -0500 In this chapter, I connect my experience with abuse and intimate partner violence with my research projects and then radically changing my pedagogy away from coercion towards empathy.

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]]> 0 18b50a0b95d90eddd4c3f56b68618610 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Affective Labor and Faculty Development: COVID-19 and Dealing with the Emotional Fallout in the group Alt-Academics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1724950/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 02:23:38 -0500 Like most centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) in 2020, ours has been engaged in continual, responsive support during the COVID-19 global pandemic. In addition to offering our rapid, knowledgeable, and evidence-based instructional development approaches during this time, we found affective skills—compassion, empathy, and listening—surfaced as…[Read more]

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]]> 0 f57ceab7fcd7421255838b93fd610f1b Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Online Teaching in the Humanities in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1701568/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:33:29 -0400 What do you do when you are an instructional designer and also do DH? This paper shows the intersections of good online course design with digital humanities pedagogy.

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]]> 0 70a045b5f024cb903d02696fc29458c8 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited We’re All YA Now: A Review of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults in the group Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1679405/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:30:39 -0500 This article is a review of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Gwen Athene Tarbox (University Press of Mississippi, 2017). Filling a significant gap in current scholarly research in comic studies, the collection will appeal to a wide range of scholars and educators. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 bdca1b0b1c193d4b4b3f27bd7084701e Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Teaching Comics/Teaching with Comics: A Review of With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books in the group TM The Teaching of Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1679403/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:25:22 -0500 This article reviews With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books, edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). The book covers a wide range of approaches, pedagogical techniques, and uses of comics and graphic novels, as well as making comics, in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c81ac6f2032263a4968acb90789fde3 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Teaching Comics/Teaching with Comics: A Review of With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books in the group Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1679402/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:25:21 -0500 This article reviews With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books, edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). The book covers a wide range of approaches, pedagogical techniques, and uses of comics and graphic novels, as well as making comics, in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5172bc2073132b53b2e38b2bae8491a Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited We’re All YA Now: A Review of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1679319/ Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:47:42 -0500 This article is a review of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Gwen Athene Tarbox (University Press of Mississippi, 2017). Filling a significant gap in current scholarly research in comic studies, the collection will appeal to a wide range of scholars and educators. The…[Read more]

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]]> 0 e560d92f25877a60b963e7500fbf5b27 Lee Skallerup Bessette's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577389/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:32:18 -0400 0 aaf912c078ab96477fc40cd5d66993e4 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited How to Make Love to a Negro: But What if I get Tired? Transculturation and its (Partial) Negation In and Through Translation in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565335/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:08:02 -0400 Dany Laferrière’s first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre was a literary sensation when it was first released in Quebec in the mid-80s. The author/narrator plays with reader’s expectations, presenting both a stereotypical image of the black man (sex-obsessed, white-hating) and one that contradicts and upsets their expectations. Influen…[Read more]

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]]> 0 f170b4f33d429b77565fc4ece6c231bc Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma in the group Postcolonial Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565282/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:34:44 -0400 Author Dany Laferrière, after a seven year hiatus from writing, produced the book Je suis un écrivain japonais (2008) [I am a Japanese Writer]. The title recalls statements he has frequently made in interviews about how much he hates being pigeon-holed by national or racial labels. The book itself is an examination of what (or who) defines s…[Read more]

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]]> 0 c6d134fe09c7bbea970b467207eb457d Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited New Frontiers: Exploring the Power and Possibilities of the Unconference as a Transformative Approach to Faculty Development https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565149/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:06:59 -0400 In the spirit of exploration, this paper discusses the what, why and how of unconferencing and explores its implications as a transformative approach to faculty development in higher education. The authors define an unconference faculty development experience as: a less-structured opportunity for participants to learn and grow by sharing…[Read more]

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]]> 0 ffaf530b135bf2949008816552a61e60 Lee Skallerup Bessette replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-18/page/3/#post-4972 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:47:19 -0400 I, Lee Skallerup Bessette, support the formation of this forum.

Signed.

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