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Blogging, women, and a swipe at ’90s gender psychology

Posted in Academia, Blogging, Modblogging, Technology, tagged , on 10 June 2008 | 3 Comments »

As I’m sure you know, the WordPress license agreement mandates a monthly blog post about blogging. What could I do?
Responding to Emily Gould’s self-exposé in the Times Magazine, Jemima Kiss on last week’s Tech Weekly podcast suggested that gender differences on blogs are most pronounced in the kinds of blogs men and women tend to [...]

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Modblogging Journal Club #1: Sheng-mei Ma on Kazuo Ishiguro

Posted in Journal Club, Modblogging, Reading, tagged , on 17 March 2008 | 4 Comments »

This is the very first Modblogging Journal Club post!
Today: Sheng-mei Ma’s “Kazuo Ishiguro’s Persistent Dream for Postethnicity: Performance in Whiteface” (PDF) from Post Identity 2.1 (Winter 1999).
Ma announces his argument with a grenade:
Although some critics may find it devilishly inappropriate, even unprofessional, to confuse fictitious characters and the fiction writer, surely [. . .] characters [...]

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Introducing Modblogging Journal Club

Posted in Journal Club, Modblogging, Reading on 17 March 2008 | 2 Comments »

A great friend of mine, a microbiologist who is now a postdoc in Seattle, used to talk about her lab’s journal club. As I understood it, journal club was exactly like fight club, although with less violence and more microbiology.
Informal reading groups have come and gone in my department, not least because we dissertators always [...]

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Modblogging: a roundtable at MSA X?

Posted in Blogging, Modernism, tagged , on 11 March 2008 | 8 Comments »

Edubloggers go two places: the faculty lounge and the seminar room.
The best blogs fit the first category—in the faculty lounge we can ask questions about pedagogy and share fears about research without fretting over how we’ll look to our committee members and peers. Take, for example, Sisyphus’s recent remarks about a class observation: there is [...]

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Can a dissertation be a story?

Posted in Dissertation, Journal Club, Modblogging, Modernism, Reading, Writing on 3 March 2008 | 2 Comments »

This week I read Barak Kushner’s The Thought War to fill in some of the historical gaps in my chapter, and I’ve found myself surprised by his writing. Though an Amazon reviewer calls it “dry, dull, and… like a jumped-up version of someone’s dissertation,” as someone who hopes to jump up his own dissertation [...]

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