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I sensed that my blog avoidance was deeply rooted in my research avoidance. I didn’t realize kicking one off would help restart the other. After I blogged yesterday, I spent most of the rest of the day and evening thinking about what was keeping me away from the book. I’ve owed my editor an email [...]
I sensed that my blog avoidance was deeply rooted in my research avoidance. I didn’t realize kicking one off would help restart the other. After I blogged yesterday, I spent most of the rest of the day and evening thinking about what was keeping me away from the book. I’ve owed my editor an email [...]
Hello, internet friends. I haven’t updated in ages — mostly because I kind of associate this blog with the research I am failing to do lately. Ahem. But I got a really nice email from one of my favourite dadcademic-bloggers, Didactic Pirate, whose recent life journey has been amazing (for real, go read), and he [...]
Sigh. A couple days after my last post, I caught a cheater for the very first time. I’ve caught plagiarism before, for sure. But this was the first time I caught someone cheating in an exam — like with actual notes the student had smuggled in and the whole nine yards. I shouldn’t actually say [...]
Hello, my oft-neglected blog. I’m at the end of another term, and I’ve been thinking through the lessons learned this semester. This marks the end of my probationary period at the College, which means that I feel like I should have gained some incredible wisdom and clarity. Mostly, I’m just sleepy. Three things that went [...]
… and I think I’m worse at it than ever! Hello, my neglected blog! How are you? I’ve been, well, seemingly underwater all semester. I took on a few new projects — an upcoming European field school, a new blogging gig, a really interesting curriculum review process — and it all amounted to be something [...]
What a month! I’ve never had a more exhausting September — neither the first year of teaching nor the first semester of grad school come close. More frustrating is that I’m still not really sure why this past month was more overwhelming than previous semester starts. I do have three preps this time around (and [...]
… under a pile of work, mostly. I hope everyone’s fall semester is going swimmingly. I have a lot of preps this semester — two all new, one reinvention — so that is absorbing a lot of time. As per usual, I’m not progressing enough on my book. I’m excited to say I’ve taken on [...]
A bit behind schedule on the Monday post this week — apologies. I’ve been thinking a lot about this ProfHacker post about teaching evening classes when you are not yourself a night person. My classes don’t go as late at the author of that post (almost to the start of The Daily Show?! are you [...]
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I'm a doctor, but, like, not that kind of doctor. I'm a recent PhD (Canadian Literature) starting my first teaching job in a brand new city on the other side of a really large country. I study pop culture, September 11th, gender stuff, and contemporary American and Canadian fiction. My major scholarly passion, though, is the pedagogy of undergraduate literature and composition. In real life, I like terrible television, Dr. Drew, Nintendo, avoiding exercise, and cooking elaborately. I'm married and I have two cats who completely run the show. My favourite isms include femin-, athe-, human-, patriot-, and popul-.
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