Todd Pettigrew

Todd Pettigrew, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English at Cape Breton University. Follow him @toddpettigrew.

If there was a God, he wouldn’t let me post this.

Answer: no.

When choosing your courses, be bold.

Is our education system producing citizens who can’t make a tough call?

No, taxonomy is not the study of taxis. That’s taxicology.

Can we agree that it should be a university for the public?

Student evaluations are probably here to stay. For worse, not better.

From meetings to spelling bees, there’s more to academia than teaching and research.

Academic life gets complicated when tolerance and freedom clash.

When should professors bring their own views into class?