Category: Teaching

On talent

Published by MJ Beasi on July 28, 2019

This started as a Twitter thread, so it reads like one (including the awkward stuff we all do to fit our rants into the Twitter…

The sensitivity paradox

Published by MJ Beasi on August 22, 2018

I’ve often complained (and by “complained,” I mean “bragged”) that one of the difficulties of my job teaching teenagers is that they are much too…

When the writing really isn't clear

Published by MJ Beasi on July 11, 2018

Maddeningly contradictory text in Dido and Aeneas: In a single scene with one location, the environment is originally described as an uninhabited valley in the…