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Jason Tougaw commented on the page, on the site californica 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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Jason Tougaw wrote a new post, Bowie’s Duet with Himself, on the site californica 3 weeks, 6 days ago

I made my first infographic. Or a stab at one. My students are making some, so I thought I should try it too. My students didn’t know Bowie’s “A Space Oddity.” I tried to hide my shock. But now they know a lot […]
Jason Tougaw posted a new page, on the site Writing About Popular Music 1 month, 3 weeks ago

I will post your writing here when we’re going to focus on it in workshop.

For Tuesday, October 2

Ramisha, Timothy, Karim, Catherine, Cheyanne

For Thursday, October 4

Natalie, Jennel, Wendy, Frankie, […]
Catherine Reyes and Jason Tougaw are now friends 2 months, 1 week ago
Jason Tougaw wrote a new post, (no title), on the site californica 3 months ago

A couple of quick announcements: There’s a giveaway in effect for The One You Get. If you enter, you have a chance to win a free copy. Everybody’s favorite online behemoth bookseller is also offering a […]
Jason Tougaw posted a new page, on the site Writing About Popular Music 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Tuesday & Thursday, 3:10 – 4:25
Powdermaker 253
Office Hours: Tuesdays 5-6 & Thursdays 1:30-2:30 in Klapper 633 (or by appointment)
Email: jason.tougaw@qc.cuny.edu
Phone: 718-997-4873

Books to […]
Jason Tougaw posted a new page, on the site Writing About Popular Music 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Books to Purchase
Marc Woodworth and Ally-Jane Grossan, eds., How to Write about Music (Bloomsbury)
Ann Powers, Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music (Dey Street Boo […]
Jason Tougaw posted a new page, on the site Writing About Popular Music 3 months, 3 weeks ago

I know that on one level, music is abstract — like a thought, as you say. But it’s also like a feeling, a real sensual and emotional pull. Music can make you feel like a room without a roof. When that’s h […]
Jason Tougaw posted a new page, on the site Writing About Popular Music 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Blog Posts (20%)
For most class sessions, four or five students will post short, informal reflections on music of their choice on our collective blog page. You may choose to respond to something in the reading […]
Jason Tougaw posted a new page, on the site Writing About Popular Music 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Tuesday, August 28
Record Club; Song Exploder: Neko Case; Writing Experiment

Thursday, August 30
How to Write about Music, pp. 1-6 & 13-15
Tracey Thorn, Chapter 2: Tissue and Skin and Bone & Chapter 3: A […]
Jason Tougaw wrote a new post, Psyched, on the site californica 4 months, 4 weeks ago

I have a new column on Psychologytoday.com, The Elusive Brain: Literature and Culture in the Age of Neuroscience. I’ll be writing about what literary writers contribute to conversations about the brain, mind, […]
Jason Tougaw wrote a new post, Jimsom Weed, on the site californica 6 months ago

My mom and her friend Voly, eighteen to her sixteen, got a recipe for jimson weed tea from this guru beach bum named Al. “He just got out of the loony bin,” Voly whispered to Cathy. My mom has always hung out wit […]
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Jason Tougaw wrote a new post, A Couple of Announcements, on the site californica 6 months ago

My essay about my enduring crush on the life and writing of Christopher Isherwood is out today on Literary Hub.

My book The Elusive Brain is out now, with Yale University Press.

“A remarkably sane book. […]
Jason Tougaw wrote a new post, Top Ten Family Deaths–Real, Near, and Imagined, on the site californica 7 months, 3 weeks ago

10. 1959. Thirty years into his career as a notoriously reckless jockey, my grandpa, Ralph Neves, survives a severe brain injury, his life saved by surgery and a metal plate where a portion of his skull used to […]
Jason Tougaw posted a new page, on the site English 242: Literary History 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Charles Bazerman, “Intertextuality: How Texts Rely on Other Texts”

Rita Carter, Chapter 1 from Multiplicity: The Science of Personality, Identity, and Self

Daniel Chandler, “Intertextuality”

Antonio […]
Jason Tougaw posted a new page, on the site English 242: Literary History 10 months ago

T/Th 10:05 – 11:55

Powdermaker Hall 119
Office: Klapper 633
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:30 – 5:30
Email: jason.tougaw@qc.cuny.edu
Phone: 718-997-4873

Course Texts may be purchased through the […]
Jason Tougaw posted a new page, on the site English 242: Literary History 10 months ago

Essay #2

Loser Sentences

Assignment for Annotation #2

Annotation Assignment #1

English 242 Syllabus (Tougaw)
Jason Tougaw posted a new page, on the site English 242: Literary History 10 months ago

Tuesday, January 30
Emily Dickinson, “I have not told my garden yet” (c. 1850-1870) + Paul Legault, 605 (2012)
Emily Dickinson, “I bring an unaccustomed wine” (c. 1850-1870) + Paul Legault, 126 (2012)
Emily […]
Jason Tougaw posted a new page, on the site English 242: Literary History 10 months ago

This course explores literary history as a mode of inquiry, asking how authors and their creations have responded to predecessors, and how such responses have transformed literature in English over time. The […]
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