Did I mention it’s near Canada?
I’ve been fairly mum about my most recent round of grad school applications, in the off chance that someone from an admissions committee somewhere decided they wanted to Google me; it’s not a giant leap from inputting my full name in Google to here, so better safe than sorry, right?
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago […]
Now with 30% more soul
Sometimes it’s easy to envision the world of academia as somewhat soul-sucking. You take something you’re passionate about, spend all your time writing, revising and distilling so you can get published or get tenure or get admitted to a really awesome PhD program, and at the end of a day of writing/teaching/TAing/workshopping/meeting-ing, you just feel […]
Fat in the Classroom: What would you teach?
This is the (Right?)Bodies week in my class, and tomorrow we’re going over fat. I’ve given this lecture many times over the past year so I already have my plans made for tomorrow, but I thought in light of how active the fat blogging community has become in recent months I’d throw this out […]
Radio celebrity!
Well, very nearly anyway.
A few weeks ago Colleen and I were heading driving around doing errands one weekend morning, listening to A Way With Words, one of our favorite NPR shows. I had recently gotten back my thesis proposal from my adviser with a few grammatical corrections. Being naturally stubborn, I googled one of the […]
Popeye approved.
When students (or faculty, or anyone) asks me to slow down my speaking, I invariably use one of two excuses: I’ve lived in New England for the past few years, or my mother is from New York so that’s where I picked it up.
Today was the start of the semester (for me) with my […]
Professor what?
I received an email this afternoon informing me that I should get on top of requesting materials for my course this fall. Instead of taking the “Professor Director” bit as just part of their auto-emailing, I’m electing to view it as them just thinking I’m really that awesome.
That, or foreshadowing. Either of which is fine […]
Why don’t more poor people write about their lives?
Oh yes, they’re poor.
I’ve been working over the past couple of months to prepare a syllabus for a course I’m teaching this fall, an intro course entitled “Women: Images and Ideas.” Contrary to what I expected going into this, I had a much easier time preparing for most of the weeks than I have for […]
The triumphant return of Blogathon (and…me?)
It seems like this happens every year… semi-regular posting, followed by a lull… and then frantic gearing up for Blogathon.
The event this year will be on July 28th this year; for the first time in four years, though, I’ll be starting at six a.m. Also different from the past four years - the past six […]
The criticisms of my students would serve as a good warning to visitors of Seeworthy: she talks too fast, she's too hard on us, she assigns too much work, and you have to be a dyke to get a good grade.
In other words, I'm a big, fat, queer, feminist meanie, and I am totally out to get you. Graaagh!
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