Jill Ewing Flynn, professor in the Department of English, contributed to Reckoning With the Whiteness of English Education: Transformative Pedagogies in English Language Arts and Beyond (Teachers ...

When my daughter was six, I bought a leather journal. I wrote a note to her almost every day. Sometimes it would be a life lesson. Sometimes it would simply say, “I love you.” Other days it might be ...

What do you genuinely care about? It’s a deceptively simple question, but one we often neglect answering for ourselves. As a result, we tend to focus our efforts and energies on tasks that don’t truly ...

Beautiful writing has always moved me, like this line from “The Dragon” by Ray Bradbury: "Now only the night moved in the souls of the two men bent by their lonely fire in the wilderness; darkness ...

Many people ask me what it means to know your power and what does it mean to become empowered. Becoming self-empowered means you come face to face with who you really are and what you really want.