Trevor Aleo

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teacher | scholar | ENG & EDU lecturer | literary, critical, & postdigital #literacies

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Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· 4d

As someone invested in the public humanities, I really appreciated this call from Gerry Canavan’s chapter of “The Future of Totality.” I also want to stress the fact that one can advocate for leveraging new media while still fighting to protect our existing institutions! It’s not binary.

"Any post-university theorists will have to wrestle with these digital forms, their powers for democratization and globalization of information, their power to turn what used to be matters of abstruse theory into universal common sense, alongside the threats they pose to how we interpret the new facts of our reality.
As thinkers and communicators-as people who have devoted our lives to these very issues-I think we have an important role to play as platforms like Apple Podcasts, Patreon, and TikTok become the new public square, in much the same way we once did on nascent applications like Twitter, now with the possibility of direct sponsorship models as alternative employment for especially influential thinkers" (215).
from "Utopia as Agility" by Gerry Canavan in The Future of Totality

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· 6d

Thanks for the thoughtful response! I think you’re spot on. I’ve taught the Odyssey a few times but didn’t have a strong relationship with it, so I think that primed me to be more open/expectant of it being Nolan-fied. Totally fair to wish it had more pizazz. Did you ever see the miniseries? 😂

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· 13d

I hadn't encountered it either! Still reading, but so far its a great combination of thinking through ideas from his more recent publications & using them to think about how to cultivate a dialectical reading practice. As someone very interested in FJ & aesthetic education, this bit sold me. ⤵️

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· 13d

Me: Okay, Trevor. You’re banned from buying more books until you get through your backlog. Also me: But Fred…

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· 16d

Beat me to the punch! I’d been meaning to make a cheeky post praising it as the true masterpiece adaptation. 😅

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· 28d

You think you can just build a canon, brother!? You have to drive truck for a living to do that kind of work.

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Jul 12

One thing that does my head about the #EduCogSci™️ movement’s obsession with scores (PISA, GCSE, NAEP, etc) is that people have stopped asking “Does this approach prepare students to actually DO science, history, English, etc.” & obsess over “does this approach raise our scores?” It’s actually crazy.

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Jul 10

For context: This is the response a prominent ed reformer gave when I agreed with him that kids should engage with the canon, but pointed out his framing of why/how they should undertake that work was pretty reactionary. It ended with Nick & I getting blocked. 😅

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Jun 25

As someone straddling the same institutional divides, this resonated. I’d also posit that both HS Eng & first year comp have both been savaged by the last few decades of skill-ification & would benefit equally from reconnecting with other humanistic disciplines AND drawing on Ss own literacies.

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Jun 20

My go-to article on this. The authors articulate why disciplinary literacy is vital across the different content areas, but also offer a rationale explaining why previous attempts failed, what they got wrong, and why they (understandably) annoyed folks. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Jun 13

Me after a few beers talking to my normie dad friends about America: “Yeah, but like—I’d argue Trump isn’t a political aberration as much as he’s a symptom of a longer standing decline of American empire blah blah” Me after a few beers watching the #USMNT with my normie dad friends: “WOO AMURICA!!”

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Jun 5

Some really cool final papers coming out of my world lit course! Favorite one so far attempted to use some excerpts from McGowan's "Universality & Identity Politics", Scott McCloud's writing on abstraction in comics, & Cesaire's "A Tempest" to make a universalist argument about art & literature.

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· May 14

Something something late stage capitalism

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Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· May 13

I follow some brilliant ed policy folks on here who really need to help me out. Is the field THAT out of ideas or is this just a NYT reporting thing? Did everyone memory hole the entire ed-reform movement flop? The level of accountability era amnesia is *insane*. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· May 6

Excited to share my dialogue with @afilreis.bsky.social about his phenomenal book & the ModPo course that inspired it. It’s a perfect follow up to my musings about how humanities Ts/scholars might take up digital tools while resisting EdTech™️! #literacies #edusky open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

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THE CLASSROOM AND THE CROWD
Poetry and the Promise of Digital Community

Dr. Al Filreis Talks Pedagogy, Poetry, & The Promise of Digital Community

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Apr 29

Oof. This is a rough read on multiple levels. If anything, I feel like the average T&L worker is much more likely to know names like Freire and Giroux than the average college professor? There’s also kind of an alarming number of “not x but y” constructions. Then this in the bio? 😬

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Apr 18

Very excited to join @marcusluther.bsky.social & @thevogelman.bsky.social’s Bleak House book club! Made the very unnecessary purchase of the cloth bound edition—because books. Also, thrilled to see Terry Eagleton wrote the forward to this edition. Message them for details!

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Apr 6

Equal parts funny & absurd that the rhetoric of CLT tests is “learning all that’s good beautiful & true” posturing, but the reality is it’s a mass produced standardized test made by a for-profit company that has longer excerpts and more questions per excerpt than the SAT & CLT. Oh, and older books.

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Apr 2

Really appreciate how Tyson Lewis's work adds political and philosophical dimensions to modeling and think-alouds, two teaching practices central to #literacies approaches in the humanities. From "The Marxist Educational Logic of the Seminar."

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Apr 1

My Jameson journey continues unabated. #dialecticmaxxing

Copy of Fredric Jameson’s “Valences of the Dialectic”

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Mar 16

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Mar 15

Really enjoyed @afilreis.bsky.social’s “The Classroom & the Crowd!” Few books scratch my itch for progressive pedagogy, digital media, & literary studies at the same time the way this did. Highly recommend to the #literacies crew! Excited to share our podcast episode soon. @columbiaup.bsky.social

THE CLASSROOM AND THE CROWD
Poetry and the Promise of Digital Community
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Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Mar 14

Thankfully our most august academic institutions are rising to the challenge and making their own public humanities programming! I mean, nothing says grass roots like a David Brooks lecture series @ Yale AND a weekly video podcast from The Atlantic. 🫠

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Mar 11

Excited to present my session, "Pixels & Prose: Supporting Audiovisual Essay Composing" at the SSWCA conference on Saturday! As someone who's still (relatively) new to CT, I'm looking forward to connecting with more local educators/researchers in & beyond the @writingproject.bsky.social network.

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Mar 11

Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.

Vance and Rubio wearing shoes gifted to them by Trump despite the fact they’re wayyy too big.

Deep in conversation, Trump peered over the Resolute Desk at their feet, Vance recalled during an event later that day celebrating Kennedy Center honoree Sylvester Stallone. "Marco, JD, you guys have s—y shoes," Trump declared before retrieving a catalog. A third politician was in the room-Vance didn't name him-and Trump asked each person for
their size. Rubio said 11.5, Vance 13. The third man said 7, according to Vance.
"The president kind of leans back in his chair and says, 'You know you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size,' " Vance said.

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Mar 10

This is on the splash page for HMH's 6-12 literacy curriculum...

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Mar 10

Appreciate the reporting! 🫡 Even as someone who researches the intersection of tech, education, & youth culture, I didn’t realize how bad it was. It inspired me to build a whole unit focused on equipping my undergrads with the tools to interrogate & critique the whole moral panic tech discourse.

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays· Mar 5

Is some intrepid, gumshoe journalist going to make a podcast about what a scandal this is? Or are they all too busy delivering keynotes, writing ed policy, or “selling a story” to curriculum companies?