I’m writing this from the Ninth Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics conference, at Stanford University, where I’ll be presenting a paper on archival research. I had a situation this morning where I was genuinely unsure of the best way to be better a feminist (or feminist ally). I attended a panel in the first session on […]
Continue reading →I wrote a piece for Medium on our educational debates and their importance for maintaining our national myth. Check it out.
Continue reading →Jordan Weissmann of The Atlantic asks why people are in humanities graduate programs in spite of very bad job numbers. First, I suppose I should say that my program is in a small subfield within the larger world of English, which has much better numbers generally than English writ large, and that my particular program has effectively […]
Continue reading →I’ll never forget when the original Xbox was announced. There were howls from the Apple crowd, at a time when they actually were the underdogs that some still pretend to be. “Microsoft’s trying to take over everything! It’s monopoly! One company should not control so many products!” Flash forward to today, and Apple releases a broader range […]
Continue reading →In the social sciences and empirical humanities, it’s frequently easy to envy the directness of measurement that characterizes some work in the natural sciences. Because so much of what we measure in topics such as education, psychology, or sociology are incorporeal, it can be tempting to join a field where you can measure things in […]
Continue reading →It’s not unusual to hear people wonder aloud about why certain behaviors that are rarely encountered in the physical world are encountered in online interactions. I believe a big part of the answer to that, and one of the keys to understanding online culture altogether, lies in the way in which social approval is made […]
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