Let me tell you a story of Paradise and Myopia. As we are skidding into the final weeks of the semester, my capacities have dwindled to a...

Something wicked this way comes. Three Wyrd Sisters on the Scottish moor pass between them a skull and caress with their long fingers the...

Just you make it until morning, and I'll show you something special. Once, a long time ago, far away from here, on a rocky little...

The roof of the Parthenon fell in--or, rather, it blew up and then it fell in--on September 26, 1687 when it was shelled by the Venetian...

Or, "Coming out of the Covid Closet with a little help from my friends Julian of Norwich, Susan Sontag, and King Lear." Jessica Riddell...

By Lisa Dickson Throughout the six-season run of Lucifer (Fox/Netflix, 2016-2021), the Prince of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis)...

by Jessica Riddell The academy does not train people to be bosses. Scholars? Yes. Educators? Sometimes. Leaders? Sure. But bosses?...

I have witches on the brain. With Halloween fast approaching, witches are lurking at the edges of my imagination, and they are demanding...

You've likely taught students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder already, given that approximately 2.2% of the general...

In Quebec we refer to the start of the school year as la rentrée, often translated as “return” or “re-entry.” This year a “return” to...

I adore Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, though I came to it late. A colleague, Jane Magrath, would dance out of her class on this...

prem·ise /ˈpreməs/ an assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory. prem·is·es /ˈpreməsəz/ a house or building,...

In his book, Radical Hope, Kevin Gannon observes that time spent in college did not educate away the racist and anti-Semitic impulses of...

As we look back on the past three months, we’ve done and experienced (and felt) so many things. Time has been, as Hamlet remarks, “out of...

I have what is known as Developmental Topographic Disorientation (DTD), which is, basically, a more extreme case of “no sense of...

We’ve just passed the anniversary of my dear sister’s death. Each year, that anniversary hits differently – sometimes softly, sometimes...

Ever since I fell in love with Hamlet at 16 (and then shortly after with Berowne and Rosalind and Henry V – my tastes are catholic), I...