First of all, let me state quite unequivocally that I think it is a shame and it is wrong that tenure-track positions are evaporating. I also decry other signs of […]
Short List of New York Literary Maps & Trees (Links)
“A Literary Map of Manhattan” from The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/06/05/books/20050605_BOOKMAP_GRAPHIC.html By Randy Cohen and Nigel Holmes “Here’s where imaginary New Yorkers lived, worked, played, drank, walked an looked at […]
Placeholder on reading
I agree with much of what Ammon and James say. I also gree with James about not writing off Ramsay. In fact, much of what Ramsay proposes makes sense to […]
Let’s Do It Ourselves.
After reading the concerned posts of both Ammon and James, I’ll chime in with my own opinion that Ramsay seemed to be overpacking loaded words into his sentences, and will […]
further concerns of rhetorical corruption in Ramsay…
The title of this comment is borrowed from James, who has recently expressed some concerns with what he views as problematic elements in Ramsay’s work. I have also found the […]
Graduate Education Reform
Some common themes in the literature regarding graduate education reform range from getting rid of the perception that the only goal of earning a PhD in the humanities is a […]
Preliminary Thoughts on Peer Review
Kathleen Fitzpatrick in Planned Obsolescence, dates the advent of peer review as far back as 1752 to the Royal Society of London’s journal, Philosophical Transactions, and possibly even earlier to […]
Ram/say
I need to preface the following by noting that I haven’t finished Ramsay’s book. He could very well address and put to rest the issues I’m about to raise, which […]
#buildaccess
On June 19, 2012, or a day or two after, I responded to the following comments made by Ray Huang of Turnitin: Turnitin recently added the ability to add colored […]
Reforming graduate education: Interdisciplinarity, multilingualism, openness
A common thread in the projects and proposals in this crucial conversation about reforming graduate education is a call for greater multi-disciplinarity in the humanities. Several writers seem to be […]
