By John Warner. A week ago Monday I posted a kind of lament over the person I used to be and the path I once desired – professor of creative writing – and how I’d “failed” to achieve that goal. More...
Going Off the Grid
I love my cell phone. It’s sleek, fits in my too-small girl-pants pockets, and comes out largely unscathed every time I unintentionally throw it on the ground. Throughout the course of graduate school it has slowly become an extension of my hand: I anxiously search for it when I forget where I left it, and I incessantly lock and unlock it using the fancy fingerprint reader when I’m fidgeting before a seminar. More...
I Found a Gap in the Lit, Now What?
It's pretty common for academics to talk about gaps in the literature. We want to find them, right? If we find a gap, that's a spot where we can do some work, as long as it's an area that will be of interest to other researchers in our fields. More...
When the Thrill is Gone
If the best dissertation is a finished dissertation, as the saying goes, is the best doctorate simply the one that is over and done with. More...
Let Your Students Say “I”
Employing an alternative genre essay to improve student writing. More...