Conferences, Incidents, and grading...

19 November 2024: The post's title more or less sums up my day on campus. 

Conferences--and I've got 38 scheduled for this week--are going just fine. They are, as always, invigorating and exhausting. 

As for Incidents, we started a two-day discussion of it in Gender and Women's Studies and, as it always does, the conversation went so well.

Grading? Well, there's a lot of it and it keeps coming. But bit by bit, I'll get through it.  

Never gets old...

12 June 2024: So delighted to receive this in the mail today. (I think it actually arrived last week, but I kept forgetting to carry the package down to my office from the mail room and open it...)

Coming soon...

23 May 2024: This one's been a long time coming, but it was really cool to see proof in my inbox.

Just hit "send"...

20 September 2020: I just sent in an article (not due until October 1). And tomorrow, I give a big presentation that I feel pretty darn ready for. By this time tomorrow, I'll have knocked off two big items on my "Fall Scholarship" to-do list. I know I have used this post title before, but the good feeling never gets old, even if it's a bit different every time. 

Also really grateful that I can still count on Vogel to be a careful reader for me.

"Keeping Pictures, Keeping House"

21 January 2020: “...what is seen is less a fiction invented by the critic than a textual provocation—a call to which we are solicited to respond. Accordingly, as we dwell in the fold where the material and the speculative collapse, possibilities emerge for rethinking sentimentalism and its attendant scripts of race, gender, authorship, and domestic labor.” --Michael A. Chaney (264)

Spent lots of time today reading some Harriet Jacobs scholarship, including Chaney's piece, an examination of a picture (probably?) of Louisa Jacobs that is among Fanny Fern's papers. The Fern/Jacobs connection is one of my favorites ti think about (and tell students about) and this piece really dives into what makes that connection so thrilling.

Work Cited

Chaney, Michael A. “Keeping Pictures, Keeping House: Harriet and Louisa Jacobs, Fanny Fern, and the Unverifiable History of Seeing the Mulatta.” ESQ, vol. 59, no. 2, 2013, pp. 262-290. Project Muse.