Dr. G
@coreygoergen.bsky.social
I used to teach and research; now I teach and play UFO 50.
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it’s an important moment for arguing in favor of habits of mind, modes of learning that are worth teaching
and if caring—about details, students, art—is not central to that discussion, what are we doing
and if caring—about details, students, art—is not central to that discussion, what are we doing
Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
October 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
it’s an important moment for arguing in favor of habits of mind, modes of learning that are worth teaching
and if caring—about details, students, art—is not central to that discussion, what are we doing
and if caring—about details, students, art—is not central to that discussion, what are we doing
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I didn’t get the wording down precisely, so I won’t quote it, but one of the things that hit hard in the room:
Reactionaries waging culture wars against the humanities have a more accurate account of our power than we do. And our humility is not admirable, but an abdication of responsibility.
Reactionaries waging culture wars against the humanities have a more accurate account of our power than we do. And our humility is not admirable, but an abdication of responsibility.
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I didn’t get the wording down precisely, so I won’t quote it, but one of the things that hit hard in the room:
Reactionaries waging culture wars against the humanities have a more accurate account of our power than we do. And our humility is not admirable, but an abdication of responsibility.
Reactionaries waging culture wars against the humanities have a more accurate account of our power than we do. And our humility is not admirable, but an abdication of responsibility.
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If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
The danger is that degrees are regarded as worthless as nobody believes students have acquired any skills any more, at least not ones they couldn't have hot from just going into an office job from school.
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
Darkly humorous that I had to click through an ad for the LA Times’s collaboration with Perplexity’s AI browser to read this review.
“Today, Dr. Frankenstein's descendants keep promising that Al won't destroy civilization while ignoring Shelley's point, that the inventor is more dangerous than his monster.”
October 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Darkly humorous that I had to click through an ad for the LA Times’s collaboration with Perplexity’s AI browser to read this review.
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Today I'm doing a talk about Women and the (early) Gothic and it might be time for a list!
So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!
So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!
a cartoon of a wizard holding a wand and a purple pot
Alt: a cartoon of a wizard holding a wand and conjuring books into a purple bag
media.tenor.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Today I'm doing a talk about Women and the (early) Gothic and it might be time for a list!
So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!
So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!
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let’s have a conference
I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books
The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.
www.publicbooks.org
October 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
let’s have a conference
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wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...
therumpus.net
October 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
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I’m shilling CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY hard because I’m so proud of it —specifically because it, like every close reading, is the product of a community and an offering to a community.
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
and I collaborated with each other and also 22 brilliant contributors.
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
and I collaborated with each other and also 22 brilliant contributors.
October 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m shilling CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY hard because I’m so proud of it —specifically because it, like every close reading, is the product of a community and an offering to a community.
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
and I collaborated with each other and also 22 brilliant contributors.
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
and I collaborated with each other and also 22 brilliant contributors.
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
www.consumerreports.org
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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“It’s a ‘driveway with a basketball hoop,’ Michael. How much could it cost?”
October 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“It’s a ‘driveway with a basketball hoop,’ Michael. How much could it cost?”
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Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
nepc.colorado.edu
September 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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I’m starting a new AI consulting company called It’s Not Going To Work, LLC. Here’s how it works. You give me $100,000, I tell you “It’s not going to work”(TM), you save $1M+ in wasted contracts, lots of wasted effort, and embarrassment. It’s a good deal. Try it out.
Lionsgate Is Founding Out It's Really Hard to Make Movies With AI https://gizmodo.com/lionsgate-is-founding-out-its-really-hard-to-make-movies-with-ai-2000663222
Lionsgate Is Founding Out It's Really Hard to Make Movies With AI
Four 'John Wick' movies just isn't enough to train an AI model, apparently.
gizmodo.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I’m starting a new AI consulting company called It’s Not Going To Work, LLC. Here’s how it works. You give me $100,000, I tell you “It’s not going to work”(TM), you save $1M+ in wasted contracts, lots of wasted effort, and embarrassment. It’s a good deal. Try it out.
I think this is also true of LLMs
I just figured out something that has confused me for ages. You know how some people love advice and how much I loathe it??
Well, see, I read. I read books and stories. That’s my advice.
Well, see, I read. I read books and stories. That’s my advice.
September 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I think this is also true of LLMs
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Patricia A. Matthew explores class, leisure, and the historical context of Pride and Prejudice.
lithub.com/what-pride-a...
lithub.com/what-pride-a...
What Pride and Prejudice Tells Us About British History, Class, and Women’s Leisure Time
The first dialogue readers encounter in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a conversation between a wife and husband who have been married for twenty-three years. Mrs. Bennet is all aflutter abou…
lithub.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Patricia A. Matthew explores class, leisure, and the historical context of Pride and Prejudice.
lithub.com/what-pride-a...
lithub.com/what-pride-a...
No way of knowing for sure, but I think I once disqualified myself from consideration for a TT job at a SLAC because I asked about opportunities to teach/mentor students in the joint English major/ed degree. Whole tone of conversation soured. Anyways I work in K12 ed now.
September 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
No way of knowing for sure, but I think I once disqualified myself from consideration for a TT job at a SLAC because I asked about opportunities to teach/mentor students in the joint English major/ed degree. Whole tone of conversation soured. Anyways I work in K12 ed now.
So good that I am reposting even though the high in Atlanta on Wednesday is 88
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;"
-Keats, from "To Autumn"
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;"
-Keats, from "To Autumn"
September 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So good that I am reposting even though the high in Atlanta on Wednesday is 88
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You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.
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Major new piece from David Ben-Merre (Buffalo State) and Manu Chander @profchander.bsky.social (Georgetown), in epilogue of David's excellent new book "O: Apostrophic Ghosts and the Disappearing Acts of Lyric Poetry."
Epilogue: Every Þrose has its thorn On Poison, the Cure, and other Pharmacological Prickles; Or, Why are you so far away?
By David Ben-Merre PhD. and Manu Samriti Chander, Published on 01/01/25
digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu
September 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Major new piece from David Ben-Merre (Buffalo State) and Manu Chander @profchander.bsky.social (Georgetown), in epilogue of David's excellent new book "O: Apostrophic Ghosts and the Disappearing Acts of Lyric Poetry."
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I don't use feedback on my writing from an LLM because it can't read and I write for readers. When students say they find LLM feedback "helpful" what are we signaling about what's important about their writing? Helpful for what goal? Helpful how? What values are being reinforced?
September 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I don't use feedback on my writing from an LLM because it can't read and I write for readers. When students say they find LLM feedback "helpful" what are we signaling about what's important about their writing? Helpful for what goal? Helpful how? What values are being reinforced?
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If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...
September 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...
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I just wanted y’all to know that “abstinence-only AI” is an agitprop term. That’s all.
September 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I just wanted y’all to know that “abstinence-only AI” is an agitprop term. That’s all.
This articulates something I’ve been feeling about even the most well-meaning and careful LLM integrations into classrooms—don’t we want our students to learn to interact with each other?!
In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
September 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This articulates something I’ve been feeling about even the most well-meaning and careful LLM integrations into classrooms—don’t we want our students to learn to interact with each other?!
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I'm thinking of teaching a class on "The Work of Art in the Age of Slop" and am wondering if anyone has ideas abut what to include?
August 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I'm thinking of teaching a class on "The Work of Art in the Age of Slop" and am wondering if anyone has ideas abut what to include?