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Cross-posted to the course blog for my junior seminar Modernism and Childhood. ----- Another one for the "government and cuteness...

Cross-posted from the blog for my course on modernism and childhood. On Tuesday we'll be discussing a number of readings around the co...

The schedule for my junior seminar "Modernism and Childhood" is below. Comments welcome. * * * Modernism and Childhood This ...

Friends and Melville fans, I am teaching Moby-Dick this semester as part of a Readings in American Lit course. My specialization centerin...

We academics like our disciplinarity decidedly inter-, or at least we spend a lot of time saying so. Yet we're also quite aware of dee...

Three days a week I get to talk with undergrads about feminism and robots. I love my life. Excellent story of the day: a student's bab...

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My analytics inform me that a bunch of people from around the country are googling me at the moment. I'm fairly sure I haven't becom...

I'm not teaching this semester, but my book list for next semester is due exceedingly soon. I think it'll have to be one of those la...

This cartoon from Abstruse Goose needs to be in every freshman handbook. Via Lisa Wade at Sociological Images .

I've started many a blog post in the last few weeks, only to discard it, dissatisfied. I'm in a bit of a strange lull lately, despit...

I've been meaning to mention for a while that earlier this month I attended a free Ruby on Rails outreach workshop for women in San Fran...

I haven't yet had a chance to discuss Mark Sample's recent, very compelling post about "gamification," the tendency to tu...

This week is going to be--I believe the term is--out of control.

Over at the Arcade Editors' Blog, I've just posted some more of my usual ramblings about academic blogging. I may enlarge on the is...

I wrote briefly about my ACLA seminar on periodization yesterday over at my course blog (part of my campaign to make it clearer to students...

The most terrifying, fascinating hashtag ever?

There's an uncanny (yeah, I went there) degree of consonance between my research and teaching lately. I'm currently working on an ar...

Am I the meanest teacher? Maybe. I think I'm about to get a really terrible song stuck in my students' heads. But it's for Lear...

Name: ________________________________________ 2/17/2011 1. The author of “Tradition and the Individual Talent” is: (a) T. ...