General Reflections on Academia: Its Culture and Practices
- Notes from the Field: “GEConf2019 (July 26, 2019)
- Fruitless or Fallow: On Being ‘Unproductive’ (March 10, 2019)
- If At First You Don’t Succeed, Must You Try Again? (June 8, 2017)
- Policy and Prejudice: My Promotion Postmortem (November 2016)
- Fear of Failing (September 26, 2016)
- Academic Enclaves (September 14, 2016)
- The Myth and the Mystery of Scholarly “Value” (August 19, 2016)
- What We’re (Really) Talking About When We Talk About Time to Read (April 10, 2016)
- The Conference Convention (February 23, 2016)
- On Being Neither Fish Nor Fowl (September 25, 2014)
- Processes and Products: The Academic Self (September 20, 2013)
- ‘Move it or lose it’: on stagnation and (im)mobility (March 12, 2013)
- Intellectual Curiosity: True Confessions Edition (February 27, 2013)
- Blogging and Intellectual Curiosity (February 22, 2013)
- “On the Duties of Professors” (January 29, 2012)
- More Ph.D. Puzzlement (October 9, 2011)
- Reality Check: ‘The Applicant’s Publication Record is Spotty‘ (June 15, 2011)
- The Ph.D. Conundrum (April 18, 2011)
- The ‘Skills’ Argument Sounds Even Worse When We’re Talking About Ph.D.s in the Humanities (January 23, 2010)
- Is Arguing for the Practical Utility of Literary Studies Ultimately Self-Defeating? (January 20, 2010)
- The Impact of the Humanities (November 23, 2009)
- Why Books? (April 22, 2009)
On (Academic) Blogging
- The Case for ‘Intelligent, Bloggy Bookchat by Scholars’: How’s It Looking? (January 24, 2015)
- Some Afterthoughts on Academic Blogging (January 26, 2015)
- Blogging: Accept no substitutes! (June 5, 2013)
- Should Graduate Students Blog? (March 19, 2013)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Academic Blogging (May 5, 2012)
- ‘The Measure of Blogging’: More from Leonard Cassuto (September 1, 2011)
- Cassuto on Blogs: ‘I have nothing against them, but I don’t read them either’ (July 4, 2011)
On Research and Scholarship
- Relearning Patience (April 3, 2019)
- Research That Matters: Knowledge and Novelty (March 18, 2012)
- Reading and Research Redux: The Somerville Novelists Project (March 11, 2012)
- When is Reading Research? (February 5, 2012)
- This Week at Work: Some Reflections on Our Research Culture (January 25, 2012)
- Mark Bauerlein’s “The Research Bust” (December 12, 2011)
- Lit Crit 2.o (Prezi for BAVS, September 2011)
Updated September 1, 2019
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