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Friday Guest Posting: Katrina Gulliver, “In Olden Days, A Glimpse of Blogging”
A French blogger, circa 1900. Katrina Gulliver is a historian based at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Her current research focuses on urban identity in colonial cities. You can see her...
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The Social Network: Or; Does Networking Really Matter To An Academic Career?
One of 17 ways to visualize Twitter. Why do we tell young scholars to “network,” and what do we mean by it? As I was finishing up Samuel Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999) last...
View ArticleThe Canceled Vacation, Back To School Nation, Hurricane Irene Blues
One of our favorite techniques for handling those last ten days before school starts is to go on a short beach vacation. For the second year in a row, our plans have been canceled because of a...
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The Morning After: the Twitterati Report #Sandy
Morning, October 30 2012. Photo credit: Tenured Radical Before I get to the role that Twitter played in documenting Hurricane Sandy yesterday, I have to ask: do you remember the “disaster girl,”...
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Job Market Rage Redux
This gem is making the rounds of the interwebs: UC-Riverside’s English department plans to let semi-finalists for its job in American Literature know five days in advance if they are to be interviewed...
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Kennedy to Native American Studies Critic: Drop Dead
OK, University of Illinois Board of Trustees chair Chris Kennedy did not exactly say that to University of Minnesota Native American Studies scholar Jean O’Brien, who had written to express her...
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The Mysteries of Facebook: Part I
You win, Mark Zuckerberg! During the orientation for a meditation class I signed up to take this winter, the instructor notified us that we would need to make between 40 and 60 minutes a day available...
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