Core Story
What is my core story? I love my job, and my job is my life, so I love my life. That is a statement that I should not write for a lot of reasons. One, I know people who are fighting to get into jobs...
View ArticleMy Grading Process
I have been teaching for almost twenty years, and I have learned a lot in that time, including how little students know about the work professors do. That is partly where this post comes from. When I...
View ArticlePut Up or Shut Up
I've liked this daily bit of writing over the last month for #reverb10, and there are still a few days left for Holidailies. Even though I was bugged by how the prompts for #reverb10 seemed...
View ArticleI Suck
Anyone who does not know me who has read the posts I have written daily over the last month will likely have one of two reactions. Well, the third reaction is that someone could care less. That's...
View ArticleNo, I Really Suck
Yesterday's post was in response to something I read where someone talked about how they feel bad reveling in schadenfreude, so they sometimes talk about themselves negatively to balance it out....
View ArticleOver the Next Month
Four weeks from today, I will be in NYC. Four weeks from last night will be Robyn at Radio City Music Hall. Though a tangent for my professional blog, I have to say I do not understand why Robyn's...
View ArticleHelp Me Find Columnists for My Rhetoric Course
I'm teaching Foundations of Rhetoric, and I'm mixing it up. We're reading contemporary theorists (Foucault, Scarry, Haraway, Butler) in the first unit. For their major assignment, I want students to...
View ArticleMy Dreams are Getting Longer and Stranger
I just have to write about the dream I had last night. As I've mentioned now and then, I saw a sleep specialist last summer. I just never have slept well, and nothing would work. My doctor would...
View ArticleFrom Edwidge Danticat's "A Little While"
“It is,” she insists. “That’s what it is. And life, like death, lasts only yon ti moman.” Only a little while.(more)
View ArticleNow That I Know What I'm Doing
In this post, I listed the various things I was applying for during my sabbatical. This past Friday, I finally heard about everything. I had made some educated guesses about what I would and would...
View ArticleHow Would You Cite Quotations from TV Shows and Movies?
Anyone who has been following me anywhere online knows that I have been researching rape jokes for a few years. I'm finally drafting the article, and I'm stumbling on something. At the start of my...
View Articlefrom Donald E. Hall's Reading Sexualities
Word."We in sexuality studies need such place-holding utopias--ones in which wide-ranging sexual diversity is valued highly, in which explorations of possible mutabilities in sexual desire...
View Articlefrom Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner's "Sex in Public"
Word, part two."Respectable gays like to think that they owe nothing to the sexual subculture they think of as sleazy. But their success, their way of living, their political rights, and their very...
View ArticleRandom Thoughts on #Occupywallstreet
Being in NYC right now is pretty fascinating timing, from the events surrounding the commemoration of the decade since 9/11 to the helicopter crash yesterday to the string of sexual assaults in...
View ArticleTweeting, Barebacking, and More
Thanks to William Bradley for the link to an article about a man who tweeted the argument he was forced to overhear at a Burger King in Boston. The article's author argues that the argument should not...
View ArticleChris Brown, Police Violence, Macbeth, and More
With the power outage, I have not been able to read a couple of things I had marked a few weeks ago, like this interview with Lee Gutkind about narrative medicine. CNF may be offering an online course...
View ArticleMore Obsessed with Dragon Tattoo Than Lisbeth Salander is with Nils Burjman's...
A few years ago, the husband made a rather astute observation about me: I treat pretty much everything in my life in an all or nothing way. I get obsessed easily. This was a time when I was ignoring...
View ArticleTwo Theories on the Representation of Rape (Inspired by Dragon Tattoo and...
As I mentioned in my last post, I saw the first showing of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo that I could. In general, I liked it. I didn't think it was amazing, but it certainly wasn't bad. It was a...
View ArticleMy Most Memorable Reality-TV Moments of 2011
(Andy at Reality Blurred read a comment I made on Facebook and asked for people's thoughts on the best and worst of reality TV in 2011. I wrote what is below but lost my links when I tried to post it...
View ArticleWhat I Learned in 2011
Just because everyone else is excited about it doesn't mean I have to be.You really cannot over-prepare for the financial side of a sabbatical.The opposite of holding a grudge is not re-inviting...
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