My colleagues Professor Babacar M’Baye and fellow PhD student Alex Hall have sent out the following cfp for a collection of essays on American popular music. If you study the cultural significance of American music, you should consider contributing. Read on for the full cfp: CFP: Critical and Transnational Approaches to American Popular Music Babacar …
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Amazing Snow Day, Albeit A Little Late for Early Arrivals at KSU
Y calls today “snow attack,” because the windy white-out conditions outside appear to be assaulting everything. What’s worse about it all is that you see the swirls and hammering of a thousand white specks that also hide the object or person being attacked. It looks very bad outside. Around 11:00am I began my first snow …
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Collecting Papers Like Falling Snow
My second tier writing students are dropping off their final essays and earlier essay revisions this morning while the Lake Erie snow machine continues to spew wicked sideways snow.
Dreams of Teaching on Another Planet
I probably shouldn’t be surprised about my dreams last night since I watched Star Trek (2009) while writing syllabi for a job application. Besides the space battles, I was impressed with it’s panaramic shots of space, the final frontier. While asleep, I dreamt that I looked up into the sky at night and I studied …
Path to Professionalization: Finding My Ratio of Publication to Service
This past Friday, Tammy Clewell hosted the second Job Placement Workshop for this school year. The topic for the workshop was how to build a kick ass curriculum vitae. I have been working on my C.V. since I was an undergraduate at Georgia Tech and I began applying to graduate schools. Like the characters in The …
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