By Penny Coleman In March of 2014, Travis L. Martin published a thoughtful and provocative article through Military Experience and the Arts, titled “Veterans Studies as an Academic Discipline,” in which he called out academia for its failure to offer programs that “(introduce) non-veterans to military service, (allow) veterans to contextualize their experience, and bring both groups together…
Pedagogy
Pedagogy Spotlight: Michael Lund
In his basic composition course, Michael Lund used poet Gabriel A. Tolliver’s recently published piece (In the inaugural issue of The Blue Falcon Review) “The Afghan Blood House.” As Lund explained, Tolliver’s piece helped elucidate the concept of plot, “I tell them [his students] sometimes hands–images of hands–are a shortcut to agency, to who has…