Scene: dinner, last night Husband: what are you doing tomorrow? Riding? Working? Me: getting on a bus at 6:30am to go to San Quentin for their Shakespeare program workshop. Husband: awesome!

Me last night: I will be on my bike at 6am, workout done by 8am, ahead of the day. Me at 6:24: sweats, tea, cat, email, failing so hard

Yesterday my first-year college students in my writing course reminded me that they were in middle school during the pandemic. That made it feel like forever ago to me, but we still had that shared memory of trying to learn/work stuck at home for so long.

First class of fall term: just print it, and go outside. The room alarm beeped all class (will be fixed), and the room's computer projector didn't project. We still had a great class thinking about thinking and thinking about writing. IT is coming to our rescue ... #teaching #paper #justprintit

Sending love to all my colleagues submitting reappointment, tenure, or promotion files today. And sending love to everyone out there who's done it recently or will be submitting soon. It's a lot of work to package up all of your work, especially while the world crumbles around us.

Sometimes at the end of a long day you need to carve out some time to hang out with tiny books

Come work with us! Santa Clara University English Dept. is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Creative Writing. scu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/scu/job/Tenu.... #jobs #academicjobs #creativewriting #highered #jobslist

spreading the word that my dept ☀️🌴 is looking to hire a TT faculty with *undergraduate* teaching and research mentoring enthusiasm in Clincal / Counseling / Community Psyc ❤️ if you / a colleague / or a PhD student is looking 👀 ... consider applying: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

We start classes Monday. I'm finalizing syllabi. Having trouble assigning argumentative research essays with - I hate to say it - the same level of implicit trust in students as before AI stole the writing process. How are we handling this?

For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.

what I really want to use AI for is to turn this essay that is in MLA 9th edition into Chicago. Anyone done this and not hated themselves for the mess it made?

keeping it real: I've had an article and a grant proposal rejected in under 7 days, both co-authored with colleagues at SCU. Ouch. Next week is now about turning at least one of those puppies around to send it back out.

Some would say week 8 + behind on grading = the worst time for travel to a symposium. Actually it was the best time for the intellectual haven of #buildingbooklabs @skeuomorphpress.org. Pics of last day zine charter workshop @literaturegeek.bsky.social; + me, happy. #letterpress #bookarts #printing

Sitting with a post #BuildingBookLabs25 buzz—in such a dark year, it was pure joy to learn in community with incredible book historians, artists, printers, & makers I’m grateful to library technical specialist & photographer extraordinaire JP Goguen, who took gorgeous pictures of our time together

"Building Book Labs" symposium hosted by @skeuomorphpress.org (not done yet!) has been nonstop relationship building + note-taking, how to make book arts more integrated at SCU, scholarship collab ideas, teaching ideas for modules + courses, workshops, and open-houses. #bookarts #printing #binding

Question: I have a co-authored article (4-5k words) on academic freedom that was previously aimed for Profession, but it is not accepting submissions right now. Suggestions on where else to send it that is peer-reviewed?

"Having overheated myself with dancing, I was obliged to be let blood; this, however, did not prevent me from keeping my engagement to dance ... the following evening." -ES Gooch, 1792. Will bleed to dance.

Hello bluesky peeps - I'm trying again to get it together and engage here regularly, since the loss of twitter and increased ick factor of FB. I miss the conversation and don't want to fall too far out of the loop.

phrase I just said to myself: there's probably the death of an author in my office. ... time to go home.

I don't have to be good at matching faces-to-names in conversation to be a good teacher. I just have to try, and I do. #idieonthishill

Somehow I have a 2-inch wide horizontal slice at the top of my forehead that is healing awkwardly. Chances are equal it was a cat at night or my mountain bike helmet when I crashed on Sunday (I'm fine). If it were a couple weeks later I'd just enhance it for Halloween effects.

My training in teaching (20 yrs ago) consisted mostly of ways to run discussions on literature and make writing assignments. Now, I give more mini lectures w/slides and organized related activities, bc I am concerned that students can otherwise miss the technical + historical details that matter.

I miss summer and being less bonkers. Yesterday I submitted a grant proposal + wrote sabbatical proposal + met with 5 students. Climbed from 6-8am, done with work by 7pm to make pizza w/ spouse. Today I'm prepping 2 classes, teaching 2 classes, plus meetings in between. Biking to/from for workout.

at 5:20pm yesterday, in the last 10 minutes of my literary theory course, we were wrapping up reader response when a spider (small, white) dropped from the ceiling on a line, as if on some gravity ride, and stopped directly in front of me. I froze mid-sentence. Student rescued both me and spider.

grant proposal submitted. 1 down, 1 to go, and that sabbatical proposal goes out on Monday, too.

writing goals done for the day! heading out of my bike ride, then back to do all the service and teaching things I can fit in before giving up. This week and next week are completely bananas.

The demise of twitter made me a shitty/rare tweeter. But I'm here trying to stay connected! Today is a writing/service day, so I'm playing word-count with my grant proposal. Revise, delete, add, delete. Trying to remain hopeful the time revising will mean I get $.

Have always wondered: Why is the menu of special characters in Word so tiny?

Spread the word, friends: Santa Clara University English is hiring a TT Assistant Prof of Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures. Come work with us, we're excited about this position. Details here, I'm happy to answer any questions that I can wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

Hi! So this is where everyone went! Missed you!