In the midst of grading papers and working on cover letters and a book abstract, I didn’t post last week. This week I will (finally) discuss my teaching partnership, which I’ve alluded to in earlier posts. It’s hard to get feedback on teaching. My end-of-semester evaluations have always been positive, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but
This past weekend I attended the North American Victorian Studies Association conference, where I presented about my current project. I was at the NASSR conference literally the weekend before I started my current position, but this was the first conference I attended since I started teaching. So this is the first time I’ve really felt
This summer I received my PhD from a large research university, and in the fall I begin as a visiting assistant professor at a small liberal arts college. The VAP is an unusual position: definitely a full-time professor, but only there for predetermined and limited time. And VAPs tend to be common at liberal arts