I just got back from the AAC&U Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success at Vanderbilt University. While I learned a great deal about HIPs, and about what it means to make meaningful interventions in student learning at the institutional level, I also learned a cool tool: Cmap. A wide variety of uses for teaching… Read More Mapping a Promotion Portfolio
This semester there will be an additional place to find me online: Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 9-10pm I’ll be holding online office hours. Visit on Google Chat and Skype. You can also find me in Cincinnati in November for the annual National Women’s Studies Association Conference. I’ll be joining Brenda Bethman, Liana Silva, and… Read More Where to Find Me This Semester, Online and Off
I was prompted by this post from Cathy Davidson on making online professional engagement visible and this piece in the Chronicle on #altmetrics to use TweetLibrary and Storify to archive my tweets. I began using Twitter for professional purposes in 2009, shortly after receiving tenure. It’s been an important part of my working life, but… Read More Creating a Twitter Archive: Making Online Professional Engagement Visible
This week has been bookended by two issues that have been shaping my work. Monday and Tuesday I was in Washington, DC for the annual meeting of the National Humanities Alliance and Humanities Advocacy Day. The Pennsylvania delegation had the opportunity to meet with staffers for Representatives Chaka Fattah, Glenn Thompson, and Mike Doyle, as… Read More The Humanities and Higher Ed
Welcome to the new and improved website. This fall I’ll be in Buffalo for the Modernist Studies Association annual conference: Thursday at the seminar “The Emotional Life of Modernism,” and Sunday speaking on the panel “Modernism and Ethics,” organized by Stephen Ross. I’ll be presenting on my current work, about which more here. In the past… Read More Where to Find Me This Semester, Online and Off
