Hi, I'm Ryan.

I'm an instructional design consultant at Boise State University, a Ph.D. student in English and the Teaching of English, and an academic journal editor.

Whether as a community college librarian, a rhetoric and composition instructor, or the other positions I've held, I help people understand complex ideas and systems, embrace curiosity, and explore alternatives.

A better world is possible, and I aim to help make it happen. If you're still curious, here's more about me.

Featured Sections

Blog
Somewhat regular posts.
ID Portfolio
Examples of my ID work.
Reading
What I'm reading.
Bookmarks
Annotated links.
Featured Pages
Other pages of note.
Colophon
How I make this site.
Notes
My digital garden.
Uses
I use & enthuse.

Featured Posts

Freire and Critical Librarianship

3 minute read

For Week One of the Critical Pedagogy MOOC MOOC, I write about Paulo Freire’s problem-posing method and its potential links to critical librarianship.

critlib #feelings

2 minute read

Why do I #critlib? Because another librarianship is possible.

Recent posts

WA 2015 Week 47 Schoofs and Battista

1 minute read

Articles from LOEX Quarterly (one by Schoofs, another by Battista) that look at learning beyond the library’s space.

WA 2015 Week 46 Massumi and North

5 minute read

Enthusiasm about Massumi putting Deleuze in a nutshell! Analogies between the pedagogy & structural place of Writing Centers & libraries! Jekyll on the Run!

Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 45

1 minute read

Three links & lots of enthusiasm! Elmborg’s Literacies Large and Small, a Time Management mega post, & how STEM relates to the liberal arts.

Weekly Assemblage 2015 Week 44

1 minute read

Halloween at CWI Library (Once Upon a Time); Readings I’m looking forward to; Taught my first library resources session.