Jill Belli

New York City College of Technology | NYCCT CUNY · English

This book spotlights the 25 most important sitcoms to ever air on American television—shows that made generations laugh, challenged our ideas regarding gender, family, race, marital roles, and sexual identity, and now serve as time capsules of U.S. history. What was the role of The Jeffersons in changing views regarding race and equality in America...

This article analyses happiness apps, a subset of quantified self (QS) applications focused on tracking and improving user subjective well-being or happiness. I examine these apps, the data they track, and the interventions they propose to explore the social, political, and ethical implications of QS practices associated with happiness apps. Despit...

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rex1.comppile.org/search/full_report.php?EntryID=53 The Writing Studies Tree (WST), a crowdsourced, online, open-access, interactive database of individual scholars, educational institutions, and the disciplinary movements that connect them-offers an academic genealogy for the field of writing studies and adjacent disciplines that explores new mo...

http://compositionforum.com/issue/34/why-well-being.php This article critically analyzes under-acknowledged influences on the recent turn toward emotions, happiness, and well-being in higher education generally and in writing studies specifically: positive psychology (the science of happiness) and positive education (teaching well-being). I provid...

kairos.technorhetoric.net/20.2/topoi/miller-et-al/index.html Instances of mentorship and collaboration represent a vital but often undocumented element of the field of writing studies, one that shapes our profession and helps to form and inform the trends in our scholarship and pedagogy. In this webtext, we discuss the Writing Studies Tree (WST),...