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INSTRUCTOR: Mat Wenzel, Ph.D., MFA, M.Ed.
EMAIL: m.wenzel@tcu.edu
OFFICE: Reed 133
OFFICE HOURS: T/R 11 to 1:50 and by appointment
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Mat Wenzel
Apr 7, 20221 min read
More CNF
For Wednesday, please read "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood" by James Baldwin and create an x-page. For your jigsaw reading,...
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Mat Wenzel
Apr 6, 20221 min read
Uses of the Erotic
For Monday, Please read "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power" by Audre Lorde from Sister Outsider and create an x-page. Also read...
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Mat Wenzel
Apr 4, 20221 min read
Creative Non-Fiction
For Wednesday, lease read the second chapter of Counterstory by Aja Y. Martinez and create an x-page. You'll also want to read the first...
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Mat Wenzel
Mar 20, 20221 min read
Fiction Mentor Text
For Wednesday, please read Blue-Skinned Gods pages 159 to 206 AND Bryan Washington's Visitor. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01...
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Mat Wenzel
Mar 19, 20221 min read
Reading as a Writer
As we continue reading Blue Skinned Gods, make sure that you are adding to your strategies toolbox as well as your daily x-pages. It...
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Mat Wenzel
Feb 28, 20221 min read
Introduction to Narratives
For Wednesday please read “Queer Narrative” by Anne Mulhall from The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies and create an X-page JIGSAW -...
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Mat Wenzel
Feb 22, 20221 min read
Sacrilegion Final section
For Wednesday, please finish reading Sacrilegion and create an x-page. You'll also want to make sure you have added some strategies to...
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Mat Wenzel
Feb 15, 20221 min read
Sacrilegion Part 5
For Monday, please read Section 5 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson: Pages 46 - 62 and create an x-page. Don't forget to continue to...
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Mat Wenzel
Feb 9, 20221 min read
More Poetics!
For Wednesday, please read section 4 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson Pages 33 - 45 and create an x-page. Also bring to class a copy of...
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Mat Wenzel
Feb 8, 20221 min read
More poetry!
For Monday, February 14, please read Section 3 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson, pages 19-31, and create an X-page Also watch this video...
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Mat Wenzel
Feb 2, 20221 min read
Considerations
For Wednesday, please read the introduction to Nepantla: an Anthology: Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto. Also read Section 2 of...
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Mat Wenzel
Jan 31, 20221 min read
Queer Poetics
For Monday, please read Section 1 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson Pages 1 - 8. You'll want to use your "Reading as a Writer" lens as...
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Mat Wenzel
Jan 26, 20221 min read
Privelege and Positionality
For Wednesday please read “Waking Up to Whiteness and White Privilege” by Ann Gleig https://www.ucf.edu/news/waking-up-to-whiteness-and-w...
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Mat Wenzel
Jan 24, 20221 min read
Crip and Transnational Cultural Production
For Monday, please read “The World-Making Potential of Contemporary Crip/Queer Literary and Cultural Production” by Robert Mcruer from...
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Mat Wenzel
Jan 21, 20221 min read
History of Oppression
For Wednesday, please read “There is No Hierarchy of Oppression” by Audre Lorde from Homophobia and Education: Council on Interracial...
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Mat Wenzel
Jan 15, 20221 min read
Intersectionality
For Monday, please read “Race-ing Homonormativity: Citizenship, Sociology, and Gay Identity” by Roderick A. Ferguson from Black Queer...
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Mat Wenzel
Jan 12, 20221 min read
MLK Day X-page
For Martin Luther King Day, please create an X-page for some MLK content that you engaged with. For a link to TCU activities/resources...
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Mat Wenzel
Jan 11, 20221 min read
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
For Wednesday, please create an X-page for “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” from Sister Outsider by Audre...
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Mat Wenzel
Dec 16, 20211 min read
Poetry is Not a Luxury
For Wednesday, we'll be reading and responding to Audre Lorde's "Poetry is Not a Luxury" from Sister Outsider. If you prefer to listen,...
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