David Clemens

Professor of English, Monterey Peninsula College

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July 2, 2020

Judith Butler’s Deific Damage

David Clemens

We see Butler's influence every day, “when we struggle with prosecutable pronoun use, proliferating genders, social constructionist cul de sac, subjectivism, and with the abandonme......

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April 30, 2014

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the MOOC

David Clemens

The MOOC provides a platform for education about Western Civilization.

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June 28, 2013

A Profession at Risk: Teaching Humans in the New Millennium

David Clemens

David Clemens reviews a new collection of essays and asks, "What is real education, and why does it need defending?"

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October 22, 2012

How the Internet Ruined the Teaching of Literature

David Clemens

Professor Clemens gives up his Literature class because students no longer relate to a non-Internet medium.

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