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Because there's always another side to teaching: Last week, I was in a panic about all three of my classes, and this week, somehow, they...

Ancrene Wiseass posted just recently about a student who wants AW to basically plan class around her absence, implying, among other things...

I'm lousy at teaching proofreading. I'm not the best proofreader in the world myself; I especially can't spell well. (I'd li...

So, as I was prepping class wandering through the internet between classes earlier today, desperately wishing I didn't have anything t...

My Chaucer class read "Adam Scriveyne" (text and audio at that link, via the Chaucer MetaPage ) last week; we got through a bit o...

With K's permission: (Background information for non-English buffs: Before inventions like printing presses, all books had to be hand c...

It's that time of the semester, coming up quickly, when I'll have my first year writing students do their first peer review /editing...

Yes, over on Creek Running North , news of a new vacation destination . I wish I had half the wit there. Just one half... is that so much ...

I've spent a lot of time lately listening to job talks. Trust me, it's an education. And since I've learned a few things, I th...

One of my colleagues (not an early modernist or anything near) told me recently that s/he wants to teach a course in the coming year using e...

The difference between a stack of 20 and a stack of 30 assignments from my first year writing class lies in how appealing the bottle of bour...

Yesterday, I wrote a rather long post about Chaucer editions, derived in large part from what I found on Amazon or had lying about the offi...

Three classes, three crash and burn sessions. Theory (for which all students have a prerequisite class [aka PC] to be taken earlier or conc...

A visitor kindly asked which translation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales I'd recommend (in the comments here). On the off chance tha...

It's Blog for Choice day. You can find out more about the, errr, movement, here . I'm pro-choice. No ifs, ands, or buts here . I bel...

It's been all over the news lately, and now it's hit the blogosphere in a big way: a UCLA alumni group is offering to pay students ...

Like so many others these days, I have to admit, I really enjoy playing Sudoku puzzles. (The site I've linked is the BEST I've foun...

Here's the latest Carnival of Feminists . Lots of great reads in there. Hosted this week by Feministe . Gendergeek will be hosting t...

I'm almost laughing at myself because I'm completely astounded at this moment. I got an email cc'd this morning from one of our ...

There's a post at Intueri about having a conversation with someone and answering the "oh, what do you do for a living?" type ...