For the purposes of this short presentation (click here for slides), I will change some of my students’ names, but I will tell you of two distinct moments and disciplinary contexts in which I engaged with pedagogical approaches of multimodal composition. I make the distinction of pedagogical to emphasize how we as scholars also engage…

Speaking on the job market experience is complicated because of various factors. Whenever one provides suggestions, they have to be taken with a consideration of the academic field(s) targeted, the kind of job sought after, and the individual/familiar priorities that should be part of decision making throughout the entire process. This post provides a few…

Plena Music and Surviving Colonialism If you do a quick search on what plena means, you will find this: or maybe you will stumble into this: A seemingly dying genre in the mainstream popular cultures, (whichever those may be), the Puerto Rican plena sounds out most loudly during the winter holidays, a practice that has…