publishing

One of my academic hobby horses is Open Access, the movement to make scholarship freely available online.... read more »

I recently was contacted by Stephen Olsen from the MLA, who is coordinating a pre-conference workshop entitled “Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates” taking place on the 5th of January at this year’s convention. For the session, they are organizing a number of case studies of digital work that they will discuss in terms of how a promotions committee or reviewers would approach them, and my blog was suggested as a possible example.... read more »

Some months back I received a contract from a Certain University Press for an article that I’ve got forthcoming in what’s going to be a super cool ed... read more »

New rule!... read more »

The blog in its infancy... read more »

According to Amazon, at least: today is the day that ... read more »

And just to round out what has been a completely insane week, an article reviewing ... read more »

August was quite a month for me personally, precluding any blogging here – moving to Germany and adjusting to life abroad has been my primary occupation (as documented on our family blog). I’m not acclimated enough to understand German television sufficiently to blog about it (although I did learn the word Schnabeltier from my kids watching Phineas und Ferb here).... read more »

The news is starting to make its way out there: I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the... read more »

Recently, I’ve read, heard & conversed about a range of issues involving the academic job & publication markets, the relative merits of particular topics & approaches to research, and the risks & rewards of making your work-in-progress public. In thinking & talking through these issues, I’ve referenced a number of personal anecdotes and experiences from my still-short career that I thought might be useful to share here for a wider audience in the name of transparency and making the oft-hidden facets of academic life visible.... read more »