My monograph from the Tennyson Society is finally out! It arrived as a stressful personal week was already taking a turn for the better, and what a gift. The project grew out of a question posed by my supervisor during my PhD first-year review: “Why don’t you look more into the contents of the glossary?” […]
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My Day Job
I’m an independent scholar. Although this is a growing demographic in the parched land of academia, people still ask me what that means when they see the phrase on my conference name tag. At its simplest, it means that the money I use to buy my groceries, tea mugs, and airplane tickets to visit friends […]
Shoveling sand & celebrating
Last year, I watched a documentary that depicted one scholar’s efforts to determine exactly how much of his ear Van Gogh cut off. That may not seem like a lot with which to fill an hour, but it was the most accurate portrayal of the research process I’ve ever seen. It can take a long time […]