The 44th Annual Meeting for American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies was held in Cleveland three weeks ago so my apologies that this isn’t coming to you in the full blush of the liveblog moment. But my brain is still sprouting with new names, books to read, perspectives on the state of the field,...
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It’s May! And that means that a lot of us academics are taking a deep, post-end-of-term-marking breath, and treating ourselves to the smallest of little vacations… a mini-vaycay, a staycation, an excursion, or what I have recently learned Germans call an Ausflug. In keeping with the theme of respite, here is a little light...
Read more →Well, it’s a new year and in the spirit of developing better habits, I thought I’d share my resolution: to become a more effective dissertator. Please note that this article is not titled “How to write a dissertation,” because to me, “dissertating” involves a LOT more than the writing process. I know (basically) how...
Read more →I don’t know how many of you at this year’s NASSR attended the seminar on Aesthetics chaired by Frances Ferguson and Anne-Lise Francois, but it was packed. I came in five minutes late and wound up sitting on the floor along with fifteen or twenty other people. The nosebleed seats were worth it, though:...
Read more →NASSR program draft June 2011 Graduate Student Caucus events will take place on Thursday, the first day of the conference, and include a roundtable and social gathering. 1) Thursday, 8/11, 10:30 – noon NGSC Sponsored Roundtable: The Job Market *Remember that this is the morning of day 1 of the conference. We hope you...
Read more →Scene: Last Friday, the elevator in the English department building, 6 pm. Having just polished off this semester’s pile of marking, I was headed home to relax: watch reruns of bad 80s sci-fi, or attack the issues of Scientific American that had been accumulating on my desk since March. In the elevator, I met...
Read more →The NASSR Graduate Student Caucus’s Special Roundtable on Journal Publication, “‘What is now proved was once, only imagin’d'; or, What Every Graduate Student Should Know about Journal Publication” has been rescheduled: Saturday, August 21st 10:30 – noon Remember, this special panel is your chance to ask questions directly to the editors of three of...
Read more →We are in the process of developing a more functional website to be the NGSC homepage than our current blog. What ideas or requests do you have for this website? Please leave them here as comments. For example: - what kinds of pages would be helpful for you? - what kinds of information would...
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