Week Fifteen: Final Evaluation Conference

You should have signed up by now for your Individual Review appointment. If you didn't, email me for a time slot. Please complete all your blog posts. Please fill out the on-line course evaluation before coming to your conference meeting. I look forward to talking to each of you on Monday April 30, 8:30 to 11:30. Remember you only have to come for your appointment time.

Week Fourteen: Commenting and Social Media

Please finish your post for last week in which you curated someone or something that has significance for you or your work. This week I would like you to mediate a topic of social activism you are interested in.  You should include links to sites that give us background or explain the topic you are interested in and you should include sites that show us how to get involved. In addition I would like you to look at comment on someone else's post for last week. 

In class we will consider aspects of activism and other conditions of social media My friend and colleague Dr. Iva Petkova will be a visiting lecturer and we will have time to converse about the issues she raises during the class.  

For those who have signed up to have your final review this week, please have all your blogs posted by Sunday. If you haven't filled out the online course evaluation, please do so.

Week Thirteen: Curate Yourself

What should be read, watch or listened to in this course? This week I am asking you to curate the course yourselves. Choose something you think would be important for us to consider and that falls within the parameters of a course in Literature and Media Studies. Include links and pictures to the original material if possible. Together with the link, include a discussion of why you think the material you have chosen is important for us to read or view. Why is this work important to you? Why should more people come to know this work?

Here are some links to the work by and articles about the artist, Molly Crabapple.  At age 33, I think she represents an inspiring balance between art and activism, using her art to humanize issues that she feels need to be brought to wider attention and understanding. 

We are going to read this story in class today.

Meet Molly Crabapple. Smithsonian Article about her. This is a general overview of Molly Crabapple and her work as an activist artist. The article praises her engagement and interviews her about her work.

A Short Interview with Molly Crabapple about her memoir.

Molly Crabapple Explains How You Can Be an Artist and an Activist

Molly Crabapple Art-Journalism:

What Life is Like Inside the City of Aleppo

Portraits of Syrian Refugees

Excerpt from Drawing Blood

Special Prostitution Courts and the Myth of Rescuing Sex Workers

On Photoshop, Feminism, and Truth

Conversation with Art Spiegelman

Molly Crabapple Draws Guantanamo's Camp X-Ray

Above are links to texts about and by Molly Crabapple.