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The Week In Review, April 11-17, 2016
Research Read two chapters of the next book I’m reviewing. Scanned and made PDFs of chapters from Andrew Cowell’s The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy which I used in my dissertation. Scanned and made PDFs of chapters from Emotions in Medieval Arthurian … Continue reading
The Week In Review, January 11-17, 2016
The Spring academic term has begun, and so returns The Week In Review feature of this blog. If I do what I am supposed to do the way I am supposed to do it, this will be the last term … Continue reading
Things To Consider Before Taking an “Incomplete” in Graduate School
I belong to an online forum that comprises a variety of educators at every step of the game, from veteran tenured professors to new graduate teaching assistants. Recently, the discussion turned to the question of taking incompletes in graduate classes, … Continue reading
Posted in Coursework, General Graduate Student Advice, Research and Scholarship, Time Management, writing in graduate school
Tagged advice for doctoral students, advice for Graduate Students, being a successful doctoral student, doctoral student, doctoral student workload, Graduate School, graduate student, graduate student workload, graduate study, graduate workload
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The Week In Review: November 16-22, 2015
Heads up that this is the second of those two, intensely-long and wildly busy end-of-term weeks I warned you about in the last post….. after this, things settle down. A little. Research Thomas Ohlgren and Lister Matheson, Early Rymes of … Continue reading
The Week in Review, November 9-15, 2015
Research Thomas Ohlgren and Lister Matheson, Early Rymes of Robyn Hood (ACMRS 2013) Thomas Ohlgren and Stephen Knight, Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales (TEAMS 2000) Rosemary Horrox and W. Mark Ormrod, A Social History of England, 1200-1500 (Cambridge 2006) … Continue reading
The Week In Review, October 26-November 1, 2015
Research “Clari’s Saga,” in Riddarasögur volume 5, ed. Bjarni Vilhjalmsson , checked against Dennis Kearney’s 1990 unpublished edition and translation. Sarah Kay, “Original Skin: Flaying, Reading and Thinking in the Legend of St. Bartholomew and Other Works,” Journal of Medieval … Continue reading
The Week In Review: October 12-18, 2015
Research “Robin Hood: Outlaw or Exile?” Atha Cotton-Spreckelmeyer, in British Outlaws of Literature and History, ed. Alex Kaufman (McFarland, 2011) “Histories of Contexts: Form, Argument, and Ideology in A Gest of Robyn Hode Alex Kaufman, in British Outlaws of Literature … Continue reading
The Week In Review, March 9-15 2015 (Or, “You Call That a Spring Break?!”)
So, this week was our university’s spring break, which in teaching assistant terms when you are the instructor-of-record for your courses means, “the seven days you’ve got to catch up on all of the things you haven’t been able to … Continue reading
The Week In Review, March 2-8, 2015
Research For the Dissertation: The Welsh Law of Women, Studies Presented to Professor Daniel A. Binchy, ed. Dafydd Jenkins and Morfydd E. Owen Ireland and Wales in the Middle Ages, eds. Karen Jankulak and Jonathan M. Wooding Beowulf, Liuzza second … Continue reading
The Week In Review, February 23-March 1, 2015
Research For the Dissertation: Timothy J. Tomasik and Juliann M. Vitullo, eds., At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Brepols, 2007) Robin Chapman Stacy, “Law and Lawbooks in Mediaeval Wales” in History … Continue reading
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