With the spring semester starting up, this has been a busy week for me and, I’m sure, for you. So I’ll make this post brief. Coming from a big Ph.D.-granting university, I got used to attending several talks a semester, whether at special events, from visiting scholars, or from professors or graduate students sharing their
This, the first post of the new semester, will be very brief. But one thing I learned at the MLA a few weeks ago is that people are, in fact, reading this blog, and finding it useful. So I want to make one, important point: If you want to control the enrollment in your courses,
The spring semester begins next week, and I will return to my year-long project about my experience as visiting assistant professor. But I want to use this week to make an argument: if we want literary studies to remain a prominent feature of higher education, then we need to train our students to discuss their