Thoughts on Turning 40: Two Stories of Survival

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Internet friends, I'm turning 40.  I decided not to confine myself today to the brief announcement and smiling picture combo that's...

Call For Papers: "Academic Prose and Its Discontents" (MLA 2015)

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I am organizing the following panel for MLA 2015.  How do academic writers navigate stylistic conventions associated with differing rhe...

MLA 2014: Notes and Comments

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I was at MLA from the beginning all the way to the end – somehow I managed to draw a panel in the second session of the entire conference o...

Panels at #MLA14 on my radar

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I took a few minutes to look at the MLA program for this weekend's conference. The following is as much a bookmark for me to follow as ...

Reagan and Apartheid -- a Few Reflections

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When Nelson Mandela's death was announced earlier this week, I had just a few minutes at my computer before my kids needed to be fed th...

"The First Four" -- Women Faculty in the Lehigh English Department

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One of my students was involved with the making of a documentary about the first women faculty in the English department. I had a chance t...

"He couldn't provide any descriptions about his assailants, and it seemed to me that in some way, he didn't want to remember them."

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As many readers have probably already seen, a Columbia University professor named Prabhjot Singh was attacked by a large group of men on ...

A Post-9/11 Essay Fragment: "'War on the Rag-Heads': Learning the Meaning of Racism..."

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This is an essay I started writing shortly after 9/11, a time when I was in shock -- and as preoccupied with suddenly being branded as ...

On N+1's "World Lite"

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I'm teaching a graduate class called "Global Cities" this fall, and when I was casting about for a text to use for the first ...

Wrap Up from Spring Teaching: "Writing for the Internet"

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Writing for the Internet: A Wrap Up from Spring 2013 Earlier I had mentioned I would be debuting a new course called "Writing f...

Fall Teaching: Global Cities

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[This fall I will be teaching a new graduate course on postcolonial literature that I am calling "Global Cities." The following i...

Consequences Day: A Modest Proposal for the 19th of March

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The U.S. has a number of important civic holidays: Veterans Day (equivalent to the British Armistice Day), Memorial Day, Labor Day, Martin ...

Text for Lehigh Valley THATcamp

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[Lehigh is hosting its first digital humanities conference -- a THATcamp -- Friday and Saturday. I am facilitating the session on "Ac...

Melodrama in Milwaukee: a Review of "American Dervish"

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[Cross-posted at The Aerogram ] When the topic of South Asian diaspora fiction came up on blogs like Sepia Mutiny (or now, happily, T...

Notes on MLA 2013

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed has already put up some stories about MLA 2013, including this article covering the growing attention payed to ...