My name is Charles Morgan. I prefer to be called Chuck, as my father was Charles Morgan. I am a full-time Assistant Professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island, where I teach writing, composition, and media literacy. My work in the classroom centers on one core idea: confidence is earned by evidence, not feeling. I want students to leave my classes thinking more carefully about what they believe and why they believe it, which sounds simple until you actually try to do it with eighteen-year-olds who have very strong opinions about everything.

I teach ENGL 1005, 1010, and 2010, as well as Critical Reading and Study Skills. My media literacy curriculum focuses on how misinformation spreads, how to evaluate sources, and how to think clearly in an information environment designed to make that as difficult as possible. I presented on this work at the TYCA-NE conference and continue developing it because, honestly, the problem keeps getting bigger and more interesting.

I am an obsessive reader. Not casual-reader obsessive — more like seventy-plus books a year and a reading log to prove it obsessive. My interests run toward social justice history, propaganda, extremism, dystopian fiction, and horror, sometimes all in the same week. I am also finishing a novel, which means I now have enormous empathy for every student I have ever asked to revise something.

Outside of school, I run Dungeons and Dragons horror campaigns for my kids, which requires approximately the same skills as teaching — you need to know your audience, you need to be willing to improvise, and you need to make them care about what happens next.

I am a music obsessive with a particular love of punk, blues, hard rock, and jazz. I play video games when time allows. I own too many books and have made peace with that.

If you are a student, welcome — your class materials are linked in the navigation. If you are a colleague or just someone who stumbled here, welcome too. Look around.