Bardiac

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

The Koan Enigma and On-Line Teaching/Learning

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In some Zen Buddhist practices, there's a way of teaching / learning called "koan."  There's a LOT of variety, but in one ...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Administrative Musical Chairs

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Another administrator has left NWU for greener pastures and a higher title. It's been something like 10 years since my college has had...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Time in the Time of Covid

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I talked to my Mom today; she's 88, and feeling her age lately.  At her retirement community, everything is locked down; they're sup...
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Thursday, March 19, 2020

One Done

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I made some good progress yesterday, considering. I've now put up the basic structures for all three of my courses, and did one day...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

You Read it Here, First

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I'm predicting an upsurge in blogging.  Buy those blogging stocks now! Blogging is at its best when the blogger is doing something rel...
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Friday, March 13, 2020

Astonied

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Reading Spenser (I'm pretty sure), I was taught that being "astonied" or "astonished" meant being turned to stone, o...
Wednesday, March 04, 2020

A Voice in the Hinterlands

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Sharon O'Dair wrote "The Lies Graduate Programs Tell Themselves" recently over at the Chronicle of Higher Education.  I'm...
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Thursday, February 27, 2020

I Can See My Desktop

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That's been a rare thing these past few weeks.  Things have just felt so busy that I've had a tendency to put a paper down and then ...
Monday, February 17, 2020

With Every Assignment Due, Disaster Strikes

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I have the first semi-big assignment due in one of my classes today, and disaster struck.  There's one car repair, one ill relative, one...
Thursday, February 06, 2020

Pre-Chair

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I came in at the usual time today (before 8am so I could get parking nearish my building), mostly because I'm going to start attending c...
Tuesday, February 04, 2020

A New Semester, New Things to Learn

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So much to learn, not just for me, but for my students, too. It's the morning of the second day of classes, and I've already had t...
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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Third Hand

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On effbee, one of my colleagues posted a link to a student blog where a student at NWU says she was sexually harassed by a male prof at NWU,...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Is the Shine off Comp/Rhet (Job-wise)?

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I'm reading applications for a position that's not Composition and/or Rhetoric, but about 15 percent of the applications are from fo...
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Sunday, January 12, 2020

Reading Ibsen

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NWU is doing a production of Ibsen's The Doll's House next semester, and since I'm teaching an Intro to Lit, I thought I'd ...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Reading Applications

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I've been reading applications, and I've noticed a couple things.  First, a number of the letters of recommendation are targeted, ...
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Thursday, January 09, 2020

Academic Anxiety Dreams and a Question for Medievalists

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Last night, I had my second anxiety dream about teaching Chaucer.  The first one, I was without any syllabi on the first day of classes, and...
Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Visit from a Former Student

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I was in my campus office yesterday, having gone to get my computer back, and then trying to delete some emails and do some little chores.  ...
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Monday, January 06, 2020

Running in Place

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On Friday, I went to the office, turned on the computer... and waited.  So I started cleaning up my office, which was pretty messy, as happe...
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Friday, January 03, 2020

A New Year Begins

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Happy New Years.  Let's hope 2020 gets better. (Though I saw that the US military basically committed an act of war ...) I spent muc...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Anxious and Absent

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It seems that this semester I have a surprisingly large number of students who are absent a lot for anxiety issues.  I think I don't qui...
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Bardiac
I profess literature. More specifically, I'm a feminist, female Shakespearean who also teaches composition regularly, early modern literature, Chaucer on occasion, graduate classes in writing and research, literary theory, poetry, drama. Welcome to my world.

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