A season celebration of quixotism that asks students to express their inner Arabella in Valentine memes drawn from the text as an exercise in reading dialogue.

Join in the anti-Romance here

This hypertext, if-narrative adventure asks college students to assume the position of Strephon in Swift's poem "The Lady's Dressing Room" as an exercise in active reading.

Click here to play the game.

This assignment celebrates bad taste, asking students to embrace Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous by writing objectively terrible poetry to learn to read the good.

You may see the winners of their poetry contest here—top honors went to the group "rhyming" Kant.

This activity asks students to embody literary characters and, albeit anachronistically, fill out internet dating profiles to develop nuanced, evidence-based readings of characters.

View the online dating gallery here.

View the form here.

This activity asks students to embrace the possibilities of associationism and idiosyncratic digression through a page-each, round-robin authorship of an excuse for missing class.

To read the assignment and see the non-linear tale of student tardiness, click here.

To understand the philosophy of "a page" and its role in minimizing student absenteeism, click here.

A parodic and updated class reconstruction of Jane Collier's The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting. 

Click here to read about "The Art of Being Roommates" and more.