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
Most of my posts have been about teaching, so I want to devote this post to writing and research. A VAP is hired to teach, and there’s no immediate pressure to keep up with one’s research. But of course that’s a short-term outlook, and it’s the scholarly work I do that’s more likely to determine
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