Not of General Interest

One of the nice things about teaching literature that's not from the 21st century is that students get to have a window on the past and ...

I read a book this weekend--not a newsworthy event for an academic, I know. But this was a book I'm rereading because a student is writi...

Here's a hypothetical situation for you. You're on campus and in your office (except for teaching) all day long, eight or nine hours...

I almost took a picture of the bag of folders with corrected papers, all neatly paperclipped to quizzes and whatever else I had to give back...

What I've been doing for the last week: reading other people's words. Reading student papers and expending good advice and ink upon ...

In " College 2.0: More Professors Could Share Lectures Online. But Should They? " Jeffrey R. Young interviews some professors who...

From The Chronicle: "Younger Professors Say a Successful Career Should Not Require Long Hours" : In conversations with a dozen fa...

Over at University Diaries, Margaret Soltan quotes from a newspaper opinion piece by Robert Duffley: My loudest complaint is the impersonali...

The Little Professor has a good post up about one of my pet peeves: those who extol the virtues of electronic databases for research when th...

No, not in the comments sections of commercial sites, which may demonstrate more ( New York Times ) or less (msnbc.com) civility and litera...

If we're in a meeting that's supposed to be at an end, and I have class in a few minutes, and you start engaging people in a discuss...

Still as corny as Kansas in August, high as a flag on the Fourth of July, and all that, about teaching flying dinosaur studies, even though ...

The New York Times asks "Do School Libraries Need Books?" in a recent issue. Some snippets: 1. James Tracey, headmaster of Cushin...

Dr. Isis alerted us yesterday to Google's horrifyingly intrusive new opt-out privacy nightmare, Google Buzz. It apparently tracks where...

This was at The Chronicle, so it'll probably be popping up on a lot of sites. With tongue firmly in cheek, I offer this view about techn...

One side effect I've noticed from the post-sabbatical reentry into teaching is that, like Don Corleone, I take things personally even if...

Things are bound to slow down now that the semester's begin, right? Right? Until then, some random bullets. What I'm finding about t...

Not so long ago in a cold galaxy not so far away, a professor dreamed that she would create a new course. The new course would be based on m...

From Garry Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment: King's eloquence endures, drawn as it was from ancient sources--the Bible, the spirituals, t...

Oh, wait--you mean I have to teach this week, too? And the next? And the next?