Always open-access, Contemporaries publishes curated conversations and critiques in the form of clusters—groups of essays centering around specific themes, topics, and discourses.
Contemporaries at Post45
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It is a sign of how deeply I was underwater at the end of two weeks without childcare with an infant and a toddler that I didn't even see this cluster came out until now. THIS CLUSTER IS SO IMPORTANT! There is an emerging dialogue between high school and college English, long overdue
Was a privilege to write about for this alongside such great writers and teachers. Wrote about what Percival Everett can teach us about how to teach reading well. Thanks to @atpost45.bsky.social for publishing, to @philnichols.bsky.social and Robert for editing.
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Thrilled to share a new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on "The Specter of High School English" that I co-edited with Robert LeBlanc.
It's an effort to foster richer dialogue between secondary and university English—and it was a joy to work with such brilliant contributors.
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Well hey, this looks RAD
📚New cluster!!
Ed. Robert LeBlanc
"The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more!
Check it out:
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there is an essay for and about everything @atpost45.bsky.social and @post45.bsky.social. Today, as I was looking for sources on blurb economy, I found this: post45.org/2018/11/the-...
My new essay, on "The Institution(s) of High School English," and the chasm that exists between high school and university English departments, is out now in Post45!
Such a pleasure to be thinking alongside this fabulous collection of teachers and scholars!
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I miss so much good stuff these days. I am somehow only just discovering this cluster on C. D. Wright, the best of the best (and you can, too!).
"It's time to read the CliffsNotes, study the AP exam, and work alongside our high school colleagues"
I am extremely enthusiastic about the work @manshel.bsky.social is doing here. Also, he's a lot of fun to read.
Part of a crucial new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster
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As BTS comeback season inches closer, I’m thinking again about one of my fave nonfiction pieces I’ve written over the last few years—“‘Don’t Let Me Fly’: on Intimacy and Fame in BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7,” for the @atpost45.bsky.social Hallyu Project issue, ed. by Yin Yuan
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Edited by Robert J. LeBlanc and T. Phillip Nichols
When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...
When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...
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Edited by Robert J. LeBlanc and T. Phillip Nichols
Percival Everett’s James is, among other things, a book about how to read well. Everett’s narrator James, his reimagined Jim, is a reader who relates in critical and playful ways with what he reads. H...
📚New cluster!!
Ed. Robert LeBlanc
"The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more!
Check it out:
post45.org/sections/con...
When it comes to the worldwide significance of Korean popular culture right now, the seven-member group BTS (or, 방탄소년단) naturally comes to mind — they are, by almost every measure, one of the most pop...
📚New cluster!!
Ed. Robert LeBlanc
"The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more!
Check it out:
post45.org/sections/con...
📚New cluster!!
Ed. Robert LeBlanc
"The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more!
Check it out:
post45.org/sections/con...
Lee Mandelo
✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster!
Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social
ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet!
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📚New cluster!!
Ed. Robert LeBlanc
"The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more!
Check it out:
post45.org/sections/con...
Edited by Robert J. LeBlanc and T. Phillip Nichols
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
