Not of General Interest

Dr. Crazy has a great post on what I've been feeling lately about all the "end of the liberal arts as we know them" articles ...

If you haven't yet read "My Fake College Syllabus" at salon.com yet, you really should. A sample: " The rest of the pe...

Dean Dad/Matt Reed has a post up about googling job candidates, and while I don't always agree with his take on things (tenure, for exa...

In the novel  Diary of a Mad Housewife, which I read a hundred years ago, there was a scene that so infuriated me that I've remembered i...

Historiann as (as usual) a good post up this week about a phenomenon she calls "Mr. Warmup"--the kind of student who, when you wa...

Between MLA and a bout of illness, I've fallen off the writing cliff big time. Here's a self-reminder list about why I need to climb...

Back from MLA 2013 in a cold but bright and sunny Boston. Random trivial observations: Great choices on the hotel sites. You could walk o...

I'm checking in to read everyone's great New Year's posts (too many to link fully; see the sidebar).  Some are looking at the ye...

I'm going to try a short internet hiatus except for the writing I need to get done (hello, MLA!).  Incidentally, has anyone else noticed...

If you live in a part of the world (as I do) where a significant number of older men have white beards, do children think they are seeing ...

Sadness and rage at those terrible events in Connecticut. Why, again, do all the deer hunters need assault rifles? Why does Mike Huckabee c...

**Content note:  post mentions sexual assault scenes in literature.** After reading the post over at nicoleandmaggie's and seeing the ...

Not as in "I'm going to miss this class, and did we do anything important, and can I have extra credit because my brother's gir...

It's the grading season right now, and we are pretty much all grading . Flavia  just wrote a great post about this, and I'd agree: ...

As the latest step in either true procrastination tactics or an attempt to get a handle on the whole manuscript and where the latest piece f...

Yesterday was just an average day, and yet it was a good day, too. It was our first day back after Thanksgiving, and there was some small ta...

I promise: no more Cassandra-like questionings of MOOC cheerleading until 2013.   Jonathan Rees  at More or Less Bunk has got that covered a...

I keep seeing articles about the gamification of learning or of working, which translates into getting people to do things for rewards such ...

From the Fresh Air Interview DAVIES: I read that when you wrote the screenplay, you gathered just the right fountain pens and notebooks. I...

Happy belated Thanksgiving to all and a happy non-shopping day today.  In addition to NOT shopping today, I'm going to try to get out to...