Michael Livingston

Mar

9

Fantasy and the Literary Legacy of Robert Jordan (Listen!)

2008 | Filed Under Academics, Fiction | 3 Comments

FANTASY AND THE LITERARY LEGACY OF ROBERT JORDAN
A speech written for the occasion of the induction of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. into the South Carolina Academy of Authors on 8 March 2008. (A write-up of the event can be found here .)
Listen:

Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
These are [...]

Mar

4

Protected: Fantasy and Robert Jordan (Listen!)

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Mar

3

Shako Complete

2008 | Filed Under Academics | 1 Comment

Last year — my first here at The Citadel — I was unceremoniously handed the faculty advisorship to The Shako, the campus “literary” magazine. There are many reasons for this, not all of them kind. One nefarious reason in particular stands out at the moment, though: the Powers That Be didn’t want me [...]

Feb

29

Writing a Speech

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Spent most of the day writing the speech I’ll give in about a week for the induction of Robert Jordan into The South Carolina Academy of Authors. It isn’t long — just 1600 words — but it was rather difficult to say all that I wanted to say, how I wanted to say it.
It’ll [...]

Feb

28

New Review on ratemyprofessor.com

2008 | Filed Under Academics | 2 Comments

I needed something to smile about this evening:
Dr. Livingston is one of the best professors that I have ever had. He is very helpful and very understanding — not to mention super intelligent. He really cares about his students, and you can tell this as soon as you meet him. He is just a great [...]

Feb

24

Encapsulating Robert Jordan

2008 | Filed Under Academics | 2 Comments

I’m just about all recovered from my illness now, and with recovery comes good news.
In a couple weeks James O. Rigney, Jr. — a writer known to most of the world by his pseudonym, Robert Jordan — will become the 47th inductee in the South Carolina Academy of Authors. It’s a tremendous honor, one [...]

Jan

8

Back to School

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Alas, the fun of the break had to end sometime. I start teaching tonight.
On the plus side, this does mean that I won’t feel so stupid when I wake up and start putting on my uniform out of habit.

Dec

13

Giants and the Black Death

2007 | Filed Under Academics | 1 Comment

In the course of doing some research on giants today, I started looking into what’s known about the Wilmington Long Man, a 235-foot figure on the side of a hill in the South Downs. (A good discussion, from which many of the following facts and figures are taken, is here.) This mysterious figure, [...]

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