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For this time of the semester, the obvious academic Meme would be: What do you do to avoid grading? Clean. Read other stuff (cereal boxes a...

The other day, I wanted to comment on one of the blogs I enjoy and read quite regularly, so I hit the "comment" thingy, and typed ...

Not long ago, Dean Dad was kind enough to address a question I had about evaluating advising here . Basically, I asked for suggestions abou...

Rereading The Winter's Tale the other day and pondering the Paulina/Antigonus relationship got me thinking about readings of the romanc...

After linking those posts yesterday about how to write an email to your professor, today I sent a totally blank email to the dean. Phear my ...

I was rereading The Winter's Tale again recently, since we're reading it in my Shakespeare class. Once again, I'm stunned at th...

Wandering through the internet ether the other day, I found a couple of useful "how to" pieces for students. Both are written by M...

I'm a bit of a theoryhead. I like working through theoretical writing, trying to understand the complexities, tease out the logic, see ...

Recently, I asked a question of Dean Dad about how we measure or evaluating advising, and he was kind enough to take on my question here . ...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I hope yours is wonderful. Happy Thanksgiving!

A couple years ago, one of my students came to my office, apparently having decided that my teaching Chaucer made me an expert on Christiani...

A student stopped in to talk to me yesterday. At the end of our class earlier, as we were departing the room, she'd asked if I were avai...

I've been thinking further about the issues raised first by Dean Dad in his post advising a History student not to pursue a PhD. A con...

The other day after class, one of my students asked me about letters of recommendation. Oddly enough, she didn't want to ask me to write...

Once again, Dean Dad has taken on a great question from one of his readers, and answered it as well as he always does. In this case, the q...

I decided to procrastinate about grading today by trying to enter some links in the side bar. Wow. All I can say is that my html skills are ...

I got great news the other day! Early this fall, I'd applied for a scholarship program which provides funds for university faculty to le...

I've been doing a bunch of conferences lately. One student's aunt just died, killed by a drunk driver. My student was way more toget...

At NYU, the graduate assistants have gone on strike because the university has decided not to recognize their union any longer, or so says C...

Not words anyone expects associated with Bardiac, eh? Recently S, a student in one of my classes, came to confer with me about a research pr...