New role...

14 August 2025: The last month or so has involved a lot of personnel work in the English program, with one colleague moving on to a new school and a flurry of work to replace him and staff his classes. That has meant--among other things--that I am now taking on the role of Coordinator of Rhetoric and Composition (with a course release). 

In that capacity, I've been helping Tim, the new department chair, with adjunct hiring and training. So, in the past couple of weeks, I've gotten to meet some great new folks who will be teaching for us. 

It's a minor miracle to get a quality teacher--especially at the last minutes, especially given what we pay--for composition classes. But we have received three of those miracles this summer. I met with the last hire, a really impressive young woman named Ali, for the first time in person today. She's great. It was so much fun to talk to her, too, about teaching and her syllabus. 

The new role will mean new work and it won't all be smooth sailing, but I am looking forward to a lot of it.