Having worked with the Teaching Resource Center at UVA, and being generally interested in pedagogy, I’ve attended a lot of talks about teaching strategies. One particular anecdote from such a talk has stuck with me. The presenter (a psychology professor) was approached at the end of a semester by a student who had been generally
This post is sparked by this article about unwritten dress codes in academia. The perspective is doubly foreign, in the literal geographic sense (it’s about Oxford) and in the disciplinary sense (it’s about science); it’s also more about women’s fashion than men’s. But it got me thinking about sartorial choices, and reminded my of the
As I was updating my C.V. to include my latest book review, it dawned on me that I seem to have an conscious preference for book reviews that appear online. I’m early in my career, and I don’t yet get a lot of requests to review — rather, if I have strong feelings about a