Category: Professional Notes

Foss to Present on Disability in Literature at JMU

Professor of English Chris Foss is slated to deliver an evening lecture at James Madison University on Monday, Oct. 30, on disability in Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales. He also will present a CFI roundtable on Universal Design and the Pedagogy of Care(taking) based on his article in the journal Pedagogy, “Individual Redemption Through Universal Design; […]

Gable’s Piece About Teaching Slavery Runs in ‘Akron Legal News’

Professor of Anthropology Eric Gable’s commentary, “Why separating fact from fiction is critical in teaching US slavery,” was published in The Akron Legal News. Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some […]