Authors–especially academic authors–should always be happy when people want to read their work, and flattered by desire for access. And so please consider me flattered: thanks for reading and thanks for caring enough to tweet about it. But since Steven Shaviro’s comment mirrored my own confusion about a month ago (and has been making the …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Dear Search Committees,
A guest post over at Antenna, on some ways to improve job searches for candidates and letter writers.
The Citizenship Ceremony
Yesterday Carrie and I were sworn in as Canadian citizens. Our ceremony took about two hours. First, all 40-odd immigrants (from 25 countries) had to have their IDs checked, and get one last set of questions as to whether we’d been in trouble with the law or immigration since we submitted our forms. We also …
“As Canadian as Possible Under the Circumstances”
Footnotes to a transition.