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Working with Living Authors: An Update on the John Temple Papers | The Ivory Tower
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Missives from an academic life. Working with Living Authors: An Update on the John Temple Papers. As a scholar of nineteenth-century poetry, the authors I write about remain blissfully ignorant of my attempts to parse their literary productions and, equally, I remain blissfully ignorant of their possible corrective responses to my research. There’s a certain liberty one can take when the object of one’s criticism is beyond talking back. However, working with the papers of John Temple. This October, I pre...
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Missives from an academic life. Launching My Online Exhibition. Yesterday afternoon I was honored to launch my exhibition, John Temple Papers: Tracing Poetic Revision in. At a lunch hosted and indeed supplied by the Department of English. I had the opportunity to introduce audience members to the poetry of John Temple with some wonderful readings by colleagues, to discuss the genesis of the project, and to outline some features of the Omeka site. And the possibilities for digitization of other relevant c...
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October | 2016 | The Ivory Tower
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Missives from an academic life. Monthly Archives: October 2016. We rejoin our plucky heroine on All Hallows’ Eve…. 820 Rise and shine! 900 Respond to a few emails for the Writing Center, while I’m finishing my cup of Earl Grey tea. 935 Leave for work. 1145 Dash out for a quick coffee break. Both while in line and when I was walking earlier, I triage emails on my smartphone: skimming, deleting, filing, and deciding which are most urgent. 300 Finally make it home and immediately put on sweatpants. I wa...
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Launching My Online Exhibition | The Ivory Tower
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Missives from an academic life. Launching My Online Exhibition. Yesterday afternoon I was honored to launch my exhibition, John Temple Papers: Tracing Poetic Revision in. At a lunch hosted and indeed supplied by the Department of English. I had the opportunity to introduce audience members to the poetry of John Temple with some wonderful readings by colleagues, to discuss the genesis of the project, and to outline some features of the Omeka site. And the possibilities for digitization of other relevant c...
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What do graduate students do all day? | The Ivory Tower
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Missives from an academic life. What do graduate students do all day? This week a colleague directed me to Philip Nel’s series of blog posts. Inspired me to start tracking my own time more carefully than I normally do. I’m sharing this because I wish to join in their consciousness-raising mission but also because I think that time so often gets away from me and I’d like to see where it’s going. Undertaking independent research and having an administrative position are new challenges for me, but also expo...
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Launching My Online Exhibition | The Ivory Tower
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Missives from an academic life. Launching My Online Exhibition. Yesterday afternoon I was honored to launch my exhibition, John Temple Papers: Tracing Poetic Revision in. At a lunch hosted and indeed supplied by the Department of English. I had the opportunity to introduce audience members to the poetry of John Temple with some wonderful readings by colleagues, to discuss the genesis of the project, and to outline some features of the Omeka site. And the possibilities for digitization of other relevant c...
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Missives from an academic life. Guest Post for The Victorianist. I have contributed a blog post to The Victorianist, a researcher blog from the British Association for Victorian Studies that showcases the work of (post)graduate researchers. You can now read my piece on “Skin and the Limits of Cross-Species Sympathy in. January 16, 2017. Working with Living Authors: An Update on the John Temple Papers. For me. He also offered extensive reflections on The Sisterhood,. With his comments included. Describing...
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December | 2016 | The Ivory Tower
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Missives from an academic life. Monthly Archives: December 2016. Working with Living Authors: An Update on the John Temple Papers. For me. He also offered extensive reflections on The Sisterhood,. Perhaps the most opaque poem I chose to work with. Visitors can now browse an updated version of the curated poems. With his comments included. During this revision process, it was a real pleasure to return to the John Temple Papers several months after their launch. This October, I presented on Wordsworth and ...
