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Tag Archives: Academia
A Professional Milestone
Six years ago to the day, I became the first person in my family to earn a PhD, (alongside my Academic Wonder Twin Matt Carter, First of His Name. ) This week, I received notification that my bid for promotion-in-rank … Continue reading
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Tagged Academia, Associate Professor, professor life, Promotion in Rank, university professor
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Some thoughts on Covid-19 and transitioning on-the-ground to online courses under emergency conditions
A lot of higher education institutions are moving either temporarily or for the semester to online learning in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is, naturally, causing a lot of stress and anxiety, which is (of course!) a totally valid … Continue reading
I’m Giving a Plenary!
Hi, everyone, I have exciting news (well, it’s exciting to me): I’ll be giving the plenary talk at this year’s Medieval Association of the Midwest conference in October! My talk will be on cannibals and gender in medieval literature, and … Continue reading
2018 End-of-the-year review (Or, “And I thought 2017 was busy!”)
It’s December 31; time for another “Year In Review” post! Here’s what I managed to accomplish professionally this year: Publications Article “‘Compassion and Benignytee’: A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Canacee and the Falcon in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale.” Medieval … Continue reading
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Tagged Academia, academic, academic life, end of the year, professor, professor life, year-end review
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Once an editor, always an editor….
Thus far in my academic career, I have edited Lenses, the literary textbook used by graduate teaching assistants at University of North Carolina Greensboro, edited Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal in Medieval Studies, and served as book reviews editor for … Continue reading
CFP: Celtic/ Old English Studies at MLA 2019
Greetings and salutations! Apologies for the radio-silence this month; it’s been a February, and someone forgot that two sections of Research and Argumentation means 40 students instead of 20 students to work on multiple drafts of multiple essays and hold … Continue reading
Five Easy(ish) Ways To Be More Productive In Your Scholarship With Less Time In Your Schedule
Let me lay all of my cards on the table from the start: I taught for ten years at a year-round private boarding school where I was responsible for developing and implementing the curriculum for three programs (French, English, and … Continue reading
2017 Redux: A Busy, Productive Year
It’s December 31; time for a “Year In Review” post! Here’s what I managed to accomplish professionally this year: Publications Essay Collection: Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth (edited with Misty Urban and Deva Kemmis). Leiden: Brill, … Continue reading
Progress … doesn’t always look like progress (a post [mostly] on research and publication)
I imagine that everyone who reads this blog has at least a passing familiarity with academia–perhaps you are a student, or the parent of a student, in college or graduate school, or a fellow professor or other member of the … Continue reading
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