CUNY Academic Commons | Eileen Liang | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/eliang/activity/ Activity feed for Eileen Liang. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 f2e84ae45d43f30da35442ed96e53227 Eileen Liang wrote a new post on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=232 Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:08:43 -0400 How convinced are we by Trites’ argument that lila’s xeroderma pigmentosum is “an embodied metaphor for racism (58),” that “xp may well be a metaphor for race in [a cool moonlight] (58)”? Are we not veering […]

]]> d2d11071afc5a2022a5bc59475f7a9a3 Eileen Liang wrote a new post on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=201 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 02:56:19 -0400 This One Summer is a graphic novel from the creative duo behind Skim. In This One Summer, Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki pair up again to bring us the story of one girl’s summer: in a familiar place, Awago B […]

]]> e6098f9baa7bff4aafba26011d160cc8 Eileen Liang created the site The Center for the Study of Women and Society https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/474122/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:54:19 -0400 8a005235188be87a03efcfaf82297ee1 Eileen Liang commented on the post, In preparation for Oct 12th...., on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/09/20/in-preparation-for-oct-12th/#comment-67 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:53:29 -0400 Choosing between S.K. Ali’s Saints and Misfits and Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer.

]]> 0f15da802fc89be433a699da0985de77 Eileen Liang commented on the post, Alexie: "I wrote my YA novel as a way of speaking to my younger, irredeemable self.", on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/10/02/alexie-i-wrote-my-ya-novel-as-a-way-of-speaking-to-my-younger-irredeemable-self/#comment-58 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 02:43:57 -0400 I had no idea! I always forget to check the Dropbox. A friend of mine sent me the essay when she heard I was (re)reading the book.

]]> 0a8d3fd538a1cc1acf6ef211dbe6a3e7 Eileen Liang wrote a new post on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=167 Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:22:11 -0400 Just thought I’d share this piece written by Alexie ( June 9, 2011). Touches on some of the things we’ve been discussing in class.

“Why the Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood” 

He’s writing in response […]

]]> 355bb2ea1c6f395ece99182d4beb0766 Eileen Liang wrote a new post on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=149 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 03:43:43 -0400 Perhaps I’ve always just taken for granted that reading was indispensable for young people (and all people in general). As someone who worked as an Americorps Jumpstart member (it was literally all about the […]

]]> 8b0c0eaf4fe73bacc7ed59bb7e566c2d Eileen Liang wrote a new post on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=131 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 02:59:42 -0400 I struggled with figuring out exactly where I wanted to take this discussion. Challenger Deep is such a rich text ripe for all different kinds of analysis. Did I want to discuss social constructionsim and […]

]]> 96155179808ae4f3a77f6469d22296b3 Eileen Liang joined the group Teaching and Learning Center https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/471089/ Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:28:58 -0400 1877a55128ec9a4f0c61235926618481 Eileen Liang wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1130 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:11:53 -0400 By Eileen Liang
I think I will always feel like a first-time instructor. The nerves I’ve been feeling since August are oddly reminiscent of my January butterflies before spring semester. Will this ever get e […]

]]> 10bf9171e7b80a60a47f9ebc0698a7be Eileen Liang and Alyssa Lyons are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/469479/ Sun, 03 Sep 2017 01:02:56 -0400 7fe4d3f3ca28689155d698c2be262e71 Eileen Liang and Carrie Hintz are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/467517/ Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:49:32 -0400 a688af4f95d43e8564d59ab61afc840f Eileen Liang's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/467464/ Wed, 23 Aug 2017 02:59:07 -0400 1e2aa913526bb2860566a1243a703cf9 Eileen Liang wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1005 Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:16:40 -0400 By Eileen Liang
As the end of the semester drew near, I began the process of creating the final exam for my students. This was a strange task. I tried to create an examination that would be straightforward and […]

]]> 2e6b8e68ce0a01bfa9d7c82412e95b9f Eileen Liang wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=924 Tue, 23 May 2017 19:05:04 -0400 By Eileen Liang
“This is meant to be constructive and helpful,” my department chair said at our post-evaluation meeting. “Don’t worry!”

But I had been worried. I had fretted about this evaluation for weeks […]

]]> 184b8570dcfca7bf7ab099a7116cf09f Eileen Liang wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=801 Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:30:10 -0400 By Eileen Liang
It never occurred to me that I could ask my students for feedback. But when a friend told me about her practice of having students fill out short in-class surveys about her class, I was intrigued. […]

]]> 21c6532cc16443780a3ede08f5612c4e Eileen Liang wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy http://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=642 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:31:07 -0400 By Eileen Liang
I’ve reached that point in the semester where I’ve officially diverged from my original course plan (a not uncommon predicament, as other VP contributors have recently attested). This is both exh […]

]]> d2cd9d47427e84f743af9d4c0e6f31cb Eileen Liang wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=505 Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:45:03 -0500 By Eileen Liang
It was the same nightmare: I’m standing in front of a room full of students – faceless, yet somehow staring – and my mouth opens and closes. No sound comes out. My heart pounds. My stomach rolls […]

]]> 0c81969e6df1985870acda1fd8e39668 Eileen Liang's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/452306/ Wed, 25 Jan 2017 03:58:51 -0500 a36940ec7a95639dd69991a2efb14804 Eileen Liang became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/452304/ Wed, 25 Jan 2017 03:54:52 -0500