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.
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Featured Posts
Freire and Critical Librarianship
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
Why do I #critlib? Because another librarianship is possible.
Recent posts
Now June 2024
Some of what I’m doing as of June 2024.
Navigating Privacy Issues with Generative AI Panel
I was honored to participate in this panel, plus create the linked bibliography of related resources.
AI and Knowing vs Languaging, plus Cosmospolitanism
Toward a definition of ‘knowing’ that distinguishes it from languaging. And a little on what I want to call ‘cosmospolitanism,’ while we’re at it.
Now March 2024
Some of what I’m doing, as of 2024-03-19.
Weekly Assemblage for 2024 Week 05
Amy Minervini published a new OER English composition book. Mita Williams might dropkick you. Plant43 might make you move to the Sentient City.