Journey into Online Course Development
As part of my efforts to make science fiction scholarship more accessible, I have begun the journey into online course development and created a mini-course called “Dune 101” based on …
Flatland: The Movie in Science Fiction Class
The 2007 animated short film Flatland: The Movie featuring the voices of Martin Sheen and Kristen Bell appears to be a popular teaching tool in math classes because it includes angles …
Ethnography Activity for The Left Hand of Darkness
One of the main issues in Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) is ethnography and its limitations. The main character Genly Ai is an ambassador …
Medieval and Early Modern Digital Humanities Seminar
This Medieval and Early Modern Digital Humanities Seminar (officially called a Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar, or PATS) was put on by the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and …
Azar Nafisi and The Power of Literature at the Sydney Opera House
I am glad I discovered that Azar Nafisi would be speaking at the Sydney Opera House during my time in Sydney before I bought tickets to the opera Turandot (although …