Category Archives: Blogging

“Multiplicity of the Self”: Kerry Clare, Mitzi Bytes

Posted on March 16, 2017 by

The problem with the multiplicity of the self — an idea that appealed to minds as wide-ranging as Virginia Woolf’s and Lolo’s, not to mention Cher’s — was that you never knew which part of you anybody was talking about. … Continue reading →

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A Decade of Novel Readings!

Posted on January 18, 2017 by

My very first post to Novel Readings went up 10 years ago today. It wasn’t much: a quick comment on Zadie Smith’s White Teeth. Rereading it today, I’m amused to see that careless applications of the label “Dickensian” was already a pet peeve, but I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Anniversaries, Blogging, Novel Readings, Personal | 8 Comments

This Week In My Classes: Here We Go Again, Again

Posted on January 12, 2017 by

It starts to feel as if I have written a lot of these ‘start of the term’ posts: I’ve used up every variation I can think of for titles! It’s in the nature of academic work to be cyclical, though, … Continue reading →

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On Having and Earning Critical Authority

Posted on February 25, 2016 by

I don’t want to leave the impression that frustration with the rigidity of academic practices is all I took away from my Louisville conference experience. There was definitely value for me in the work I put into my own paper, as well … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Literary criticism | 13 Comments

This Week in ‘Not My Sabbatical Any More’

Posted on July 30, 2015 by

My sabbatical actually ended officially on June 30. I marked the transition with my week’s vacation in Vancouver, and returned to Halifax ready to get back to “regular” work. It’s summer, of course, which means I’m still not teaching, but … Continue reading →

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Some Afterthoughts on Academic Blogging

Posted on January 26, 2015 by

Some follow-up comments on academic blogging, prompted by comments on my previous post here and on Twitter. My main take-away at this point is that there are a number of further refinements that matter to any attempt at generalizing. Here are … Continue reading →

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The Case for “Intelligent, Bloggy Bookchat By Scholars”: How’s It Looking?

Posted on January 24, 2015 by

On Thursday I participated in a Twitter Q&A with the members of Karen Bourrier‘s University of Calgary graduate seminar on Victorian women writers. The students had been assigned my JVC essay on academic blogging (anticipated in my 2011 BAVS presentation, … Continue reading →

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