Video of Lectures and Presentations

Introducing Myself, for Arts One Digital


This is a ten-minute video for the Arts One Digital website, introducing me and my work. I talk a little bit about the "improvisational pedagogy" I am trying to foster, as well.

On Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley


This is video of a lecture given for Arts One in January 2013. It was recorded for the Arts One Digital project, and is available for viewing, as a mediasite video with the corresponding PowerPoint slides, on the Arts One Digital site here.

 

On The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot


This is video of a lecture re-recorded for Arts One in February 2013. It was recorded for the Arts One Digital project, and is available for viewing, as a mediasite video with the corresponding PowerPoint slides, on the Arts One Digital site here.

 

On Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons


This is video of a lecture recorded "live" for Arts One in late March 2013. It was recorded for the Arts One Digital project, and is available for viewing, as a mediasite video with the corresponding PowerPoint slides, on the Arts One Digital site here.

Introductory Talk for English 111/002 (Dislocations -- Introduction to Prose Non-Fiction), September 2013


In my absence for the first week of classes, I recorded this video to welcome the class and to offer some general information about the course. It's also available for viewing, as a mediasite video, here.

Introductory Talk for English 220/005 (Deviations -- Literature in English to the Eighteenth Century), September 2013


Again, in my absence for the first week of classes, I recorded this video to welcome the class and to offer some general information about the course. It's also available for viewing, as a mediasite video, here.

Lecture on John Milton's "On Shakespeare. 1630" for English 220/005 (Deviations -- Literature in English to the Eighteenth Century), September 2013


This is a video version of the first lecture for this survey course, dealing with canonicity and cultural memory, among other things. It's also available for viewing, as a mediasite video with the corresponding PowerPoint slides, here.