• Posts Tagged ‘community’

    Comprehensive Exam Preparation

    by  • November 26, 2011 • Advice • 0 Comments

    This is my exam semester. When I began my PhD in West Virginia University’s program “exams” existed in an intangible future; now, they are here. No matter the format, no matter the number of texts on your list, the comprehensive exams are one of the legendary hurdles of obtaining a literature PhD. Critical to...

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    Bankrolling Education

    by  • March 26, 2011 • News, Pedagogy, Profession, Student Life • 3 Comments

    I began my first post as a member of this blogging community as a reflection on course organization, but as the week progressed it has been impossible to ignore some of the larger issues facing higher education—Romanticists and non-Romanticists, faculty and students, graduate and undergraduate students alike. Public institutions around the nation are asking...

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    Romantic Living

    by  • March 5, 2011 • Student Life • 5 Comments

    I realize the title of my first piece sounds like a Redbook article. It isn’t. Yet. But, I thought for my first post it’d be good to introduce myself by talking a little about how I’ve come to do, and view, Romantic studies and, in so doing, gesture towards why I think our field...

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    On the NGSC Blog: Why We're Here

    by  • September 27, 2010 • News • 0 Comments

    Clearly, we started in medias res: our blog content and authors need an introduction, a prospectus if you will, for our project. But maybe it’s apropos that we jumped right into the thick of things … There is a unique relationship between Romanticists and the digital that I have yet to put my finger...

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