In general, WR 112 instructors should feel free to use as many of the following texts as they would like to build up their course, supplementing as they see fit with other texts (“texts” is broadly construed, including advertisements, videos, podcasts, TED talks, etc.). Please share any additional texts you are using beyond this list so that we may add them to our common pool.
Hub theme for WR 112: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy (see below)
WR 112 Texts and the BU Hub
The BU Hub (general education requirements for all undergraduates across BU’s many schools and colleges) provides a broad and focused learning area of interdisciplinary learning experiences to prepare students for an increasingly interconnected world. Towards such an end, the BU Hub contains six essential capacities:
- Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Historical Interpretation
- Scientific and Social Inquiry
- Quantitative Reasoning
- Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Global Citizenship
- Communication
- Intellectual Toolkit.
WR 112 satisfies a Hub requirement in “Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Global Citizenship,” specifically in the area of “Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy,” in which students are guided to explore how “our world is interlinked socially, economically, culturally, and politically” and to consider the “historical and systemic bases of social and racial inequities occur in the world today.”
Texts by Theme
Faculty are encouraged to use the themes below as a starting point for populating their syllabus, considering possible connections students might make in a synthesis.
Language and Literacy
- Altfeld, Heather. “Sweetness and strangeness. In our image-saturated, over-sped world, we are losing the imaginative power to create and find meaning through metaphor.” Aeon, 1 July 2019. https://aeon.co/essays/metaphors-grow-the-mind-and-feed-the-soul-dont-lose-them?
- Bellos, David. Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything. New York: Faber & Faber, 2011. [Excerpts, especially chapter 3!] https://www.tarjomano.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Is-that-a-Fish-in-your-Ear.pdf
- Borodisky, Lera. “How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?” TED talk, plus transcription. https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/13/
- Brock-Utne, Birgit, and Gunnar Garbo. Language and Power: The Implications of Language for Peace and Development. [excerpts] https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bu/detail.action?docID=1134939
- Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. https://www.thedaln.org/#/home
- Fridland, Valerie. Like, literally, dude: arguing for the good in bad English. [Excerpts; BU has online access here]
- Green, Lane. “Who decides what words mean? Bound by rules, yet constantly changing, language might be the ultimate self-regulating system, with nobody in charge.” Aeon, 6 December 2018. https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-might-be-the-optimal-self-regulating-system?fbclid=IwAR0I8lo8ziwmSXs5C31jsBKemA6fZOkY8KZayalglwANK2Fiepn-NZ_AFWA
- Hansen, Heather. “How to Speak Bad English Perfectly.” TEDx Talk (2018, about 20 minutes long, includes closed captioning but not an actual transcript): https://www.ted.com/talks/heather_hansen_2_billion_voices_how_to_speak_bad_english_perfectly
- Kent, Debbie. “The 24-Hour Language Experiment: Timothy Maxymenko’s US2. What would happen if two people who do not have a common language tried to communicate with each other for twenty-four hours?.” Asymptote, 27 May 2019. https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2019/05/27/the-24-hour-language-experiment-timothy-maxymenkos-us2/?fbclid=IwAR0dOV5qxlvn4yFGFLDjQclMh-REL_n0ooY8m4M4Qq9s5sic2wMDioZFc0Q
- Kim, Christine Sun. “The Enchanting Music of Sign Language.” (TED Talk) August 2015. https://www.ted.com/talks/christine_sun_kim_the_enchanting_music_of_sign_language?language=en#t-884158
- Language and Life Project (LLP), from NC State Univ., documenting and celebrating diverse “dialects, languages, and cultures” of the US: https://languageandlife.org/
- Lin, Chia-Chia. “One Word: Understand.” The Paris Review, 7 May 2019. https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-might-be-the-optimal-self-regulating-system?fbclid=IwAR0I8lo8ziwmSXs5C31jsBKemA6fZOkY8KZayalglwANK2Fiepn-NZ_AFWA
- Luu, Chi. “How Language and Climate Connect. While we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This is no coincidence.” JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2019. https://daily.jstor.org/how-language-and-climate-connect/?fbclid=IwAR2Pzrlw5Q5VK-JF4oma86gbi32iaPQSK5bkygcSBr4FbTvEI-OxIdN4IsA
- Lysicott, Jamila. “Three Ways to Speak English” (4-minute TEDTalk from 2014 on what it means to be “articulate”). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9fmJ5xQ_mc&t=266s
- Lysicott, Jamila. “Why English Is Silencing Students of Color” (22-min TEDTalk from 2018 on the intersections of language, race, and power and honoring all language varieties). https://www.ted.com/talks/jamila_lyiscott_why_english_class_is_silencing_students_of_color
- The “From Sea to Shining Sea” section has some great discussion & linked resources re: language varieties (particularly, dialects and varieties of American English)
- The “What Speech Do We Like Best?” section discusses linguistic prejudice and sociolinguistics
- The “What Lies Ahead?” section talks about mass media, technology, and globalization of language (specifically American Englishes)
- There’s also a specific section “For Educators”PBS.org. Excerpts from “Do You Speak American?” https://www.pbs.org/speak/
- Rojas Contreras, Ingrid. ” Translation as an Arithmetic of Loss.” The Paris Review, 18 June 2019. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/18/translation-as-an-arithmetic-of-loss/?fbclid=IwAR1llDelWPUN_hhU-R3P3QRHrPB0PHXLKqozrojfKSEv37BYvVGi7bT7joA
- Stefanik, Ana. “Malaphors: The Art of Mixing Up Your Idioms. To all intensive purposes, you might have another think coming about how idioms work.” Aeon. 2 July 2019. https://aeon.co/videos/to-all-intensive-purposes-you-might-have-another-think-coming-about-how-idioms-work?fbclid=IwAR3DBXVUYCf-uZ BlVkMlJyGxHwUrShFzsIsIcoKKycHozkYH4pWbDbCwJs
- Taylor, Nora. “Accents, Language, and Race: 5 People on Why They Code Switch.” Repeller, 23 May 2018. https://repeller.com/readers-code-switch/
- Traves, Julie. “The Church of Please and Thank You.” https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA130135876&sid=sitemap&v=2.1&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=mlin_oweb&isGeoAuthType=true&aty=geo
- “In Praise of Dialect: A Celebration of Non-Standard English” (2018) by Ray French: https://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/in-praise-of-dialect/
- 22-minute video from Al Jazeera: “Linguistic Imperialism?” https://www.aljazeera.com/program/riz-khan/2010/10/21/linguistic-imperialism
- 26-minute segment from 2018 on NPR’s CodeSwitch series called “Talk American” (includes transcript): https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636442508/talk-american
- “Why Do Cartoon Villains Speak in Foreign Accents?” by Isabel Fattal for the Atlantic (2018): https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/01/why-do-cartoon-villains-speak-in-foreign-accents/549527/#
- Excerpt from this piece on language ideologies: https://www.languageonthemove.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Piller_Language-ideologies.pdf
Race and Antiracism
- Excerpts from Asao Inoue’s book on his own experiences and the habits of white language
- Brown, Joel. “Indigenous Voices Speak Out at BU.” BU Today, 13 October, 2021. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/indigenous-voices-speak-out-at-bu/
- BU Today Staff. “Why Did BU Rename Columbus Day Indigenous Peoples Day?” BU Today, 6 October, 2021. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/rename-columbus-day-indigenous-peoples-day/
- Gurvis, Jacob. “COM Student Pens YA Novel about Identity, Cultural Conflict, and Malaysian Culture.” BU Today, 31 July, 2020. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/com-student-pens-ya-novel-about-identity-cultural-conflict-malaysian-culture/
- Richards, Lauren. “BU Students Launch New Magazine Celebrating the Various Nuances of the Asian American Experience.” BU Today, 21 January, 2022. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/bu-students-launch-magazine-celebrating-asian-american-experience/
- Rimer, Sara. “Ibram Kendi, BU Center for Antiracist Research Founding Director, Wins 2021 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant.” BU Today, 28 September, 2021. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/ibram-x-kendi-macarthur-fellows-genius-grant-winner/
- Rimer, Sara. “Message from Antiracism Symposium: Move from Awareness to Action.” BU Today, 3 October, 2021. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/antiracism-symposium-racial-health-and-economic-inequities-during-the-pandemic/
- Warner, Gregory, Rhaina Cohen, and Luis Trelles. “How to Speak English.” (33-minute segment from 2021 on NPR’s Rough Translation series, with transcript): https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/989477444/how-to-speak-bad-english
- 18-minute TEDx Talk from John Baugh (2019): “The Significance of Linguistic Profiling”: https://www.ted.com/talks/john_baugh_the_significance_of_linguistic_profiling
- Ziadeh, Rafeef. (Note how she meshes languages and pronounces Arabic words in Arabic) https://youtu.be/ySeqgyCxRxY
- Abdullahi, Hafsat. https://youtu.be/qIrN4I1qX20
- Brave New Voices: https://youtu.be/OadZpUJv8Eg
- Zeina Hashem Beck. “Correcting My Mother’s Essay.” https://muse.jhu.edu/article/562760/pdf
- “We Write English on a Continuum” by Laura Aull
- “African-American English: From the Hood to the Amen Corner” by Geneva Smitherman
Environmental Justice
- Cho, Joshua. “The inconvenient truth about migration the media brush off.” Truthdig.com. 31 July 2019. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-inconvenient-truth-about-migration-media-brushes-off/
- Halverson, Nathan. “How the Lack of water led to violence from Mexico to Syria.” Reveal. 20 Nov 2015. https://revealnews.org/blog/how-the-lack-of-water-led-to-violence-from-mexico-to-syria/
- Heglar, Mary Annaise. “I Work in the Environmental Movement. I don’t care if you recycle” Vox.com 28 May 2019. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal
- Knight, Sam. “The Uncanny Power of Greta Thunberg.” The New Yorker. 24 Apr 2019. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-uncanny-power-of-greta-thunbergs-climate-change-rhetoric
- Krishnan, Niranjana. “Why synthetic chemicals seem more toxic than natural ones.” Aeon 16. Aug 2019 https://aeon.co/ideas/why-synthetic-chemicals-seem-more-toxic-than-natural-ones
- Laskowski, Amy. “BU Student Discovers a Yet-to-Be-Named Dinosaur in China.” BU Today, 8 December, 2020. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/henry-liu-discovers-a-yet-to-be-named-dinosaur-in-china/
- Luu, Chi. “How Language and climate connect” Jstor Daily. 10 July 2019. https://daily.jstor.org/how-language-and-climate-connect/
- Whitty, Julia. “All the Disappearing Islands.” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/07/all-disappearing-islands/
- Yoder, Kate. “Why your brain doesn’t register the words climate change.” Grist.org 29 Apr 2019. https://grist.org/article/why-your-brain-doesnt-register-the-words-climate-change/
- “The Impact of Climate Change on Language Loss” by Anastasia Riehl (2018): https://theconversation.com/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-language-loss-105475
Music and the Arts
- Aguirre, Abby. “Amandla Stenberg Is a Voice for the Future.” Vogue.com, 19 April, 2017. https://www.vogue.com/article/amandla-stenberg-interview-gender-feminism-black-culture
- Bloch, Hannah. “These Eye-Popping, Hand-Painted Trucks Rule Pakistan’s Roads.” NPR.org, 5 February, 2022. https://www.npr.org/2022/02/05/1076102464/pakistan-truck-art-painting
- Castillo, Monica. “The Limitations of ‘Latinidad’: How Colorism Haunts ‘In The Heights.’” NPR.org, 15 June, 2021. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/15/1006728781/in-the-heights-latinidad-colorism-casting-lin-manuel-miranda
- Cengel, Katya. “Whatever Happened To … The Heavy Metal Mongolian Band Called The Hu?” NPR.org, 5 September, 2020. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/05/906217191/whatever-happened-to-the-heavy-metal-mongolian-band-called-the-hu
- Clarke, Patrick. “No, Streaming Services Are Not ‘Saving The Music Industry.’” Thequietus.com, 26 April, 2018. https://thequietus.com/articles/24471-no-streaming-services-are-not-saving-the-music-industry-opinion
- Krukowski, Damon. “How to Be a Responsible Music Fan in the Age of Streaming.” Pitchfork.com, 30 January, 2018. https://pitchfork.com/features/oped/how-to-be-a-responsible-music-fan-in-the-age-of-streaming/
- McAuliffe, Alanna. “The Thin Line Between Appreciation and Exploitation.” Cuny.edu, https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/whatwewear/cultural-appropriation/
- Nittle, Nadra. “The cultural appropriation debate has changed. But is it for the better?” Vox.com, 18 December, 2018. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/18/18146877/cultural-appropriation-awkwafina-bruno-mars-madonna-beyonce
- Shivaram, Deepa. “Shoba Narayan’s Fight for South Asian Representation Began Long before Jasmine.” NPR.org, 9 January, 2022. https://www.npr.org/2022/01/09/1070716507/aladdin-jasmine-shoba-narayan-south-asian-indian
- Ulaby, Neda. “Metropolitan Museum of Art Sends Three Benin Bronzes Home To Nigeria.” NPR.org, 9 June, 2021. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1004859329/metropolitan-museum-of-art-sends-three-benin-bronzes-home-to-nigeria
Food
- Atkin, Emily. “Why do Carrot Hotdogs make you so mad?” New Republic.com 3 July 2018. https://newrepublic.com/article/149325/carrot-hot-dogs-make-mad
- Gharib, Malaka. “The Colonial Roots of Pimiento Cheese.” NPR.org 19 May 2019. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/05/19/724322542/the-colonial-roots-of-pimiento-cheese
- Thao Thai. “The Problem with Ong Ngaio’s cooking.” Eater.com 17 June 2019. https://thaowrites.com/writing/the-problem-with-grandpas-cooking/
- Wong, Alan. “How to Make Tteokbokki.” BU Today, 29 October, 2021. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/how-to-make-tteokbokki/
- “Let’s Call It Assimilation Food” (Soleil Ho) – personal narrative; Discusses terms “authentic,” “ethnic,” and “fusion food,” also focuses on themes of home & belonging, memory & the past: https://tastecooking.com/lets-call-assimilation-food/
- “What Did ‘Authenticity’ in Food Mean in 2019?” (Saxena): https://www.eater.com/2019/12/3/20974732/authentic-food-definition-yelp
- “Yelp Reviewers’ Authenticity Fetish Is White Supremacy in Action” (Kay): https://ny.eater.com/2019/1/18/18183973/authenticity-yelp-reviews-white-supremacy-trap [This can be interesting for Linguistic Controversy presentation: Language used in restaurant/food reviews.]
Global Cities
- Bauer, Curtis. “The Disorientation of Scarcity.” Slag Glass City Nov 2015. http://www.slagglasscity.org/soapbox/letter-from-another-city/the-disorientation-of-scarcity/
- Engelhard, Michael. “Arctic Wayfarers – Inuit mental and physical maps.” Terrain.org 14 Mar 2019. https://www.terrain.org/2019/nonfiction/arctic-wayfinders/
- Florida, Richard. “Why Some Americans Won’t Move.” Bloomberg.com 30 May 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-30/people-in-the-u-s-are-moving-homes-less-than-ever
- Guerra, Cristela. “Redlining was Codified Racism.” WBUR.org. 25 April 2019. https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/04/25/redlining-exhibit
- Kalfopoulou, Adrienne. “The Parts Don’t Add Up.” Slag Glass City.org. 2017. http://www.slagglasscity.org/soapbox/section-12-continuouscity/parts-dont-add/
- Waters, Carlos. “Hostile Architecture.” Vox.com 29 November 2017. https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/12/1/16724914/hostile-architecture-defensive-design-uncomfortable-benches
- Critical approaches to globalization: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/38348
Im(migration)
- Afridi, Humera. ”A Gentle Madness.” Grant.com, 4 April 2012. https://granta.com/A-Gentle-Madness/
- Sociolinguistic Superdiversity and Asylum, https://repository.usfca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=coms#:~:text=To%20summarize%2C%20sociolinguistic%20superdiversity%E2%80%94that,within%20diversity%2C%20produced%20by%20the
- Barlow, Rich. “BU Class Explores the Deportation of 56 Million Latin Americans from the United States over the Last Century.” BU Today, 26 March, 2021. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/bu-class-explores-the-deportation-of-56-million-latinos-from-the-united-states-over-the-last-century/
- Cole, Teju. “When the Camera was a weapon of Imperialism (and still is).” New York Times 6 Feb 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/magazine/when-the-camera-was-a-weapon-of-imperialism-and-when-it-still-is.html
- Dimasi, Liana. “Book review of Garcia and Saxby, Foreigner.” museemagazine.com 12 July 2016. https://museemagazine.com/culture/2016/7/12/book-review-foreigner-by-thomas-saxby-and-daniel-castro-garcia
- Ostrander, Madeline. “Without a Country: Pramilla Jayapal on the Problems Immigrants Face” The Sun 2008. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/504a37dec4aa06de7c441c98/t/5082f08bc4aa1a31c650470d/1350758539541/Without+a+Country.pdf
- Quinn, Audrey and Jacki Roche. “Syria’s climate-fueled Conflict” Mother Jones May 2014. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/syria-climate-years-living-dangerously-symbolia/
- Salesi, Taiye. “Where are you from?” TED Talk. https://ed.ted.com/lessons/v2J4JEi6
- Wang, Mary. “Hotel USA.” Guernica 6 May 2019. https://www.guernicamag.com/sima-docs-hotel-usa/
- Zaman, Muhammad H., and Carrie Preston. “POV: The Importance of Teaching and Learning about Afghan Refugees.” BU Today, 20 September, 2021. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/pov-the-importance-of-teaching-and-learning-about-afghan-refugees/
- Zamorodi, Manoush, and Diba Mohtasham. “Puppet of a Syrian Girl Walks the Path of Refugees to Offer Hope for the Future.” NPR.org, 2 November, 2021. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051577603/puppet-of-a-syrian-girl-walks-the-path-of-refugees-to-offer-hope-for-the-future
History and Memory
- Adelman, Jeremy. “What is global history now?” Aeon, 2 March 2017. https://aeon.co/essays/is-global-history-still-possible-or-has-it-had-its-moment
- Afridi, Humera. ”A Gentle Madness.” Grant.com, 4 April 2012. https://granta.com/A-Gentle-Madness/
- Contrera, Jessica. “This photographer wanted to humanize Ellis Island’s immigrants. His images are still powerful.” The Washington Post, 26 November 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/23/this-photographer-set-out-humanize-immigrants-century-before-build-that-wall/
- Densho.Org. “Preserving Stories Of The Past For Generations Of Tomorrow. Our Mission: To Preserve And Share History Of The WWII Incarceration Of Japanese Americans To Promote Equity And Justice Today.” Densho.org. https://densho.org/about-densho/
- Dixon, Robyn. “30 years ago a Chinese tank column stopped for ‘Tank Man.’ Fang Zheng wasn’t so lucky.” Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2019. https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-tiananmen-30-years-20190603-story.html
- Dunbar-Oriz, Roxanne. “What White Supremacists Know.” Boston Review.net. 20 Nov 2018. https://bostonreview.net/articles/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-what-white-supremacists-know/
- Hedges, Chris. “War is Betrayal.” Boston Review.net. 1 July 2012. https://bostonreview.net/articles/war-betrayal-chris-hedges
- Horn, Dara. “Auschwitz Is Not a Metaphor. The new exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage gets everything right—and fixes nothing.” The Atlantic, 6 June 2019. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/auschwitz-not-long-ago-not-far-away/591082
- Jacobs, Jessica. “The History Before Us. How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?” Guernica, 21 January 2019. https://www.guernicamag.com/the-history-before-us/
- Kindig, Jessie. “Peace Regimes.” Boston Review.net. 20 June 2018. https://bostonreview.net/articles/jessie-kindig-peace-regimes/
- King, Martin Luther Jr. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” 16 April 1963. https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
- Pinkard, Terry. “The spirit of history. Hegel’s search for the universal patterns of history revealed a paradox: freedom is coming into being, but is never guaranteed.” Aeon, 13 June 2019. https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-history-nobody-gave-a-deeper-answer-than-hegel
- Pitre, Jake. “Do Memes Change How We Remember History? ‘Some memes may actually dissolve the original significance of iconic photographs and potentially degrade, rather than enhance, public culture.” Catapult, 22 April 2019. https://catapult.co/stories/jake-pitre-digital-hope-memes-history-television-heritage-memory
- Press, Michael. “Who really owns the past? Cultural heritage is an ideal imposed from above [by the wealthy and powerful]. It’s time to listen to what communities value about their own histories.” Aeon, 27 May 2019. https://aeon.co/essays/why-cultural-heritage-benefits-the-rich-and-powerful-above-all
- Roediger, Henry L., III, DeSoto, K. Andrew. “The Power of Collective Memory.” Scientific American, 28 June 2016. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-power-of-collective-memory/
- Wang, Yanan. “Artists who’ve dared to broach Tiananmen pushed into shadows.” AP News, 2 June 2019.https://apnews.com/article/media-music-li-zhi-ap-top-news-tiananmen-square-f850f5db726b4b948b7431a6d158a453?fbclid=IwAR0RyudtLqVUnE7cRJwa4GXRlWYLGSki5qLkmldIztNKwmg8Q9eFcorTsY4
- Wiesel, Elie. “Why I Write: Making No Become Yes.” The New York Times, 14 April 1985. https://www.rjuhsd.us/cms/lib05/CA01001478/Centricity/Domain/351/Why%20I%20Write%20Elie%20Wiesel.pdf
Identity, Gender, and Sexuality
- Afridi, Humera. ”A Gentle Madness.” Grant.com, 4 April 2012. https://granta.com/A-Gentle-Madness/
- What Makes You Multicultural? https://hbr.org/2019/12/what-makes-you-multicultural
- Do I Sound Gay? A documentary about finding your true voice. This link goes to the trailer – looks like the full doc is available on Amazon Prime: https://www.doisoundgay.com/
- “The Long, Sexist History of ‘Shrill’ Women” from Time.com (2016): https://time.com/4268325/history-calling-women-shrill/
- Alberti, Fay Bound. “One is the Loneliest Number: The History of a Western Problem.” aeon.co, 12 September 2018. https://aeon.co/ideas/one-is-the-loneliest-number-the-history-of-a-western-problem
- Behar, Ruth. “Searching for Home.” aeon.co, 14 April 2014. https://aeon.co/essays/where-is-home-for-the-child-of-nomads
- Bouranova, Alene. “My Coming Out Story: Judi Burgess.” BU Today, 29 June, 2021. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/my-coming-out-story-judi-burgess/
- Guest, Andrew. “Pursuing the Science of Happiness.” oregonhumanities.org, 4 April 2012. https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/ha-fall-winter-2010/pursuing-the-science-of-happiness
- Larson, Christina. “The Startling Plight of China’s Leftover Ladies.” foreignpolicy.com. 23 April 2014. https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/04/23/the-startling-plight-of-chinas-leftover-ladies
- Laskowski, Amy. “Class of 2026 Hopefuls: BU’s Largest Applicant Pool Ever.” BU Today, 9 February, 2022. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/class-of-2026-largest-applicant-pool-ever/
- Rimer, Sara. “My First-Gen Story: Malika Jeffries-EL Survived Grad School through Grit and Networking.” BU Today, 25 January, 2022. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/first-generation-student-malika-jeffries-el/
- Specia, Megan. “Siri and Alexa Reinforce Gender Bias, U.S. Finds.” The New York Times, 22 May 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/world/siri-alexa-ai-gender-bias.html
- Turkle, Sherry. “Connected but Alone.” (TED Talk plus transcript) The Sinju Post, 14 December 2014. https://singjupost.com/connected-alone-sherry-turkle-ted-transcript
- Young, Emma. “How Can We Help the Hikikomori to Leave Their Rooms?” aeon.co, 16 July 2019. https://aeon.co/ideas/how-can-we-help-the-hikikomori-to-leave-their-rooms
Disability
- Bogart, Laura. “What It’s Really Like to be Fat in a World That Hates Fat People.” huffpost.com, 27 September 2018. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-its-like-to-be-fat_n_5b9fbcdee4b046313fbd7143
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “Letter to My Son.” The Atlantic, 4 July 2015. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/tanehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me/397619/
- Ferrante, Dana. “2021 Diversity and Inclusion’s Learn More Series Focuses on Disability and Impact of Ableism.” BU Today, 13 September, 2021. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/judy-heumann-disability-rights-leader-to-speak-at-learn-more-series/
- Guest, Andrew. “Pursuing the Science of Happiness.” oregonhumanities.org, 4 April 2012. https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/ha-fall-winter-2010/pursuing-the-science-of-happiness
- Korbey, Holly. “Understanding Dyslexia and the Reading Brain in Kids.” KQED, 1 October 2015. https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/41845/understanding-dyslexia-and-the-reading-brain-in-kids
- May, Katherine. “Autism from the Inside.” Aeon.co, 22 August, 2018. https://aeon.co/essays/the-autistic-view-of-the-world-is-not-the-neurotypical-cliche
- Woolhouse, Megan. “BU Wheelock’s Deaf Studies Program Leads Philosophical Changes in Deaf Education.” BU Today, 29 January, 2021. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/bu-researchers-inspire-a-bilingual-approach-to-teaching-deaf-children/
- “Want a Lesson in How People Judge Women’s Voices? Start a Podcast” – Huffington Post (2015): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-people-judge-womens-voices-podcasts_n_55a01ae9e4b0a47ac15c893c
Media and Social Media
- BBC Staff. “#Trashtag: The online challenge cleaning places up.” Bbc.com, 12 March, 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47536861
- Dilloway, Margaret. “What White, Western Audiences Don’t Understand About Marie Kondo’s ‘Tidying Up.’” Huffpost.com, 22 January, 2019. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marie-kondo-white-western-audineces_n_5c47859be4b025aa26bde77c
- From Me Too to Rice Bunny: How Social Media Users are Campaigning in China. https://theconversation.com/from-metoo-to-ricebunny-how-social-media-users-are-campaigning-in-china-90860
- Green, Duncan. “An antidote to futility: Why academics (and students) should take blogging / social media seriously.” Blogs.lse.ac.uk, 26 October, 2015. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/10/26/why-academics-and-students-should-take-blogging-social-media-seriously/
- Greenspan, Rachel E.. “Meet the Man Who Popularized the Viral #Trashtag Challenge Getting People Around the World Cleaning Up.” Time.com, 12 March, 2019. https://time.com/5549019/trashtag-interview/
- Gruwell, Leigh. “Constructing Research, Constructing the Platform: Algorithms and the Rhetoricity of Social Media Research.” Presenttensejournal.org, 23 January, 2018. https://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-6/constructing-research-constructing-the-platform-algorithms-and-the-rhetoricity-of-social-media-research/
- Harrington, Anne. “Psychiatry, Racism, and the Birth of ‘Sesame Street.’” Undark.org, 17 May, 2019. https://undark.org/2019/05/17/psychiatry-racism-sesame-street/
- Houck, Brenna. “Farmers Are Using Twitter to Document the Disastrous Effects of Climate Change on Crops.” Eater.com, 29 May, 2019. https://www.eater.com/2019/5/29/18644596/farmers-are-using-noplant19-to-document-climate-change
- Lei, Cecilia. “Majority of Black Americans Value Social Media for Amplifying Lesser-Known Issues.” NPR.org, 5 August, 2018. https://www.npr.org/2018/08/05/635127389/majority-of-black-americans-value-social-media-for-amplifying-lesser-known-issue
- Mohammed, Farah. “What’s Wrong with Planet Earth?” Daily.jstor.org, 22 April, 2019. https://daily.jstor.org/whats-wrong-with-planet-earth/
- Piper, Kelsey. “Hyped-up science is a problem. One clever Twitter account is pushing back.” Vox.com, 15 June, 2019. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/15/18679138/nutrition-health-science-mice-news
- Seitz, Matt Zoller. “Our Planet is a Beautiful but Punishing Glimpse of Earth’s Worst-Case Scenario.” Vulture.com, 25 April, 2019. https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/our-planet-on-netflix-review.html
- Unferth, Deb Olin. “The Tidying Up of the American Mind.” Tinhouse.com, 23 January, 2019. https://tinhouse.com/the-tidying-up-of-the-american-mind/
Storytelling
- Densho.Org. “Preserving Stories Of The Past For Generations Of Tomorrow. Our Mission: To Preserve And Share History Of The WWII Incarceration Of Japanese Americans To Promote Equity And Justice Today.” Densho.org. https://densho.org/about-densho/
- Guest, Andrew. “Pursuing the Science of Happiness.” oregonhumanities.org, 4 April 2012. https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/ha-fall-winter-2010/pursuing-the-science-of-happiness
- Nobel, Justin. “The Last Inuit of Quebec.” https://www.thesmartset.com/article01071001/
- Rojas Contreras, Ingrid. “Translation As An Arithmetic Of Loss.” The Paris Review. 18 June 2019. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/18/translation-as-an-arithmetic-of-loss/
- Wiesel, Elie. “Why I Write: Making No Become Yes.” The New York Times, 14 April 1985. https://www.rjuhsd.us/cms/lib05/CA01001478/Centricity/Domain/351/Why%20I%20Write%20Elie%20Wiesel.pdf