John Chandlee Turnbull

M.A. TESOL | Ph.D. student, Culture, Literacy & Language, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Entering El Valle de la Paz

March 9, 2020April 6, 2020John Turnbull 2 Comments

Winds of the spirit blew soothingly late this morning through Valle de la Paz cemetery in Hargill, Texas, the place of interment of Chicana author and borderlands theorist Gloria Anzaldúa.

‘Mensajes Desde Colombia’: El epílogo

February 2, 2019December 1, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

Un extracto de mi libro recientemente publicado, Mensajes Desde Colombia: Messages from Colombia (2019), 48 páginas.

‘Mensajes Desde Colombia’: The epilogue

February 2, 2019December 1, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

An excerpt from my recently published book, Mensajes Desde Colombia: Messages from Colombia (2019), 48 pp.

Powerful woman, powerful writing

January 14, 2019January 21, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

When I think about "powerful writing," I would point to the piece that I wrote for a website about the late South African female soccer player Eudy Simelane.

Peace through various prisms

July 23, 2018January 19, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

“Dabeiba is more incredible than Macondo,” says Rev. Diego Higuita, referring, with the second place he names, to the town invented by Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García-Márquez.

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  • Rhetorical occasions: Arguing for new trolleys June 27, 2021
  • Journalistic decay, epistemological certainty March 7, 2021
  • Personal literacy testimonio February 16, 2021
  • 15 sites of spiritual communion January 3, 2021
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