Category: Academia

  • My Op-Ed in Creative Loafing

    Creative Loafing published my op-ed yesterday on their news blog, “Fresh Loaf.”  Read “Guns Don’t  Belong on Georgia’s College Campuses” here.

  • New Reading List

    I think I’ve found my summer reading list (yes, I’m thinking that far ahead).  The Chronicle of Higher Education asked a dozen scholars “what nonfiction book published in the last 30 years has most changed their minds.”  I’m especially interested in Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle (having themed a course on time and literature earlier this year and…

  • SAMLA 86

    Time is running out to register at a discounted rate for this year’s SAMLA conference.  It takes place November 7-9, focuses on “Sustainability and the Humanities,” and features talks by Dr. Ursula K. Heise and Wendell Berry.  For more information on the conference, hotel information, panels, and schedule, visit this page.  I’m particularly interested in…

  • New Publication

    I just had a review published in gender forum, a peer-reviewed journal that is published exclusively online.  The journal is devoted to “the discussion of gender-related topics in the fields of literary and cultural production, media and the arts as well as politics, the natural sciences, medicine, the law, religion and philosophy.”  I always enjoy contributing…

  • NeMLA 2014

    NeMLA 2014

    I just got back from this year’s NeMLA convention in Harrisburg, PA. I enjoyed the city and got to meet some cool people doing some cool stuff.  I was excited to hear on a panel called “Fiction as Pedagogy” that MLA will be publishing a collection on service learning and literary studies.  I can’t wait…

  • Easy Bib and Google

    Easy Bib and Google

    Great news!  You can now use Easy Bib when composing a Google Drive document.  I used it today, and it’s very easy.  I love the way it updates the work cited page in MLA and how it’s easy to search for books and articles from the same screen.  It’s great to have an alternative to…

  • Should Adjuncts Earn More?

    NPR recently aired a piece on adjuncts in higher education and how little they make each year at colleges and universities across the country.  This story makes me nervous.  I’ll be graduating with a PhD in the next couple of years, and I worry about not being able to find work that pays a decent…

  • Science and the Humanities Have More in Common Than We Think

    Krista Tippett recently interviewed Brian Greene for her program On Being.  Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and has written lots of provocative stuff about our universe.  I’ve heard him interviewed before, but this conversation was particularly interesting because, at one point, they discuss the troubling disconnect between science and…

  • Lit2Go

    I love this resource so much that I have to share it.  The University of South Florida has loads of books that are in the public domain available as free audiobooks.  I found these when I was studying for my comprehensive exams and needed to read at all hours of the day.  Since I had…

  • The Cost of Higher Ed in Georgia Increases Again

          The state’s Board of Regents voted to increase tuition and fees at Georgia’s public colleges and universities.  Here’s a link to the AJC report.