Sean Carswell is the author of eight books, including the crime novel Dead Extra (Prospect Park, 2019). He is completing his forthcoming monograph Revolting Rednecks for University of Pennsylvania Press. He is a professor of writing and literature at California State University, Channel Islands.
Sean Carswell
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To Fix the University, Return to Moo U
Every time Sean Carswell teaches Jane Smiley’s “Moo” in his research writing class at California State University, a catastrophe at the fictional Moo University mirrors a crisis within CSU.
Facts We Accept and Facts We Don’t
Several years ago, a student of mine accused me of bullying her. She looked me in the eye and calmly listed all the things I’d done: singling her out, dismissing …
