Teaching Site
https://abjohnson.net/teaching/
Poetry
“I Yell Out at This Fool Deer in the Road.” Solum Journal, vol. 5 (2024): 22. Print. (Poem)
“Leaving the Bridge.” Ekstasis (Oct. 2023). Online. (Poem)
“Drift Back and Sleep.” Ekstasis (June 2023). Online. (Poem)
“Wrist.” The Curator (11 Mar. 2021). Online. (Poem)
Scholarship
“Selling San Narciso: Pierce Inverarity as Insider-Innovator in The Crying of Lot 49.” Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 11.1 (2023). Web. ~10,500 words. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/orbit.9380
“Perspicuous Objects: Reading Comics and Writing Instruction.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 19.1 (2014). Web. With art by Scott Kolbo. A multi-threaded webtext built around a ~16,000-word scholarly article.
“A Portable Ecology: Supporting New Media Writing and Laptop-Ready Pedagogy at Ball State University.” 19 pages. With Kristie S. Fleckenstein and Jackie Grutsch McKinney. Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment. Ed. Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Heidi A. McKee, and Richard Selfe. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State UP, 2009. Web.
Work By My Students + My Commentary at The JUMP
Commentary and Background for George McGuinness’s “The Cage.” The Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects. 14.1 (2024). Web. <https://jumpplus.net/issue-14-1/the-cage-14-1/>. Features, along with George’s “graphic score” (as in musical score) from my Visual Narratives course, my commentary, George’s commentary, and my course assignment.
Commentary and Background for Hannah Charlton’s “The Shadow of Turning.” The Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects 3.1 (2011). Web. <https://jumpplus.net/issues/issue-3-1/167-2/>. Along with Hannah’s comic adaptation project from my course, this piece features my commentary, additional reviewer commentary, course information, and my extensive class assignment.
Commentary and Background for Kyle Kim’s “Closer.” The Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects 2.1 (2010). Web. <https://jumpplus.net/issues/issue-2-1/closer-by-kyle-kim/>. Along with Kyle’s video project from my course, this piece features my commentary, additional reviewer commentary, course information, and my extensive class assignment.
This Old Thing
Sometimes Obvious. 1997. Pretty good Indiana alt rock; I played the drums and learned a lot.