I love almost everything about teaching. Almost. What I don’t like — what will screw up my sleep habits for weeks after it happens — is handling what we here at The Citadel call “HVs”: Honor Violations. In my academic neck of the woods that means plagiarism and lying (which …
Not a Grade-A weekend, mind you. No, no. A weekend devoted to grading. Insert cheering here. Especially sad is that it’s Homecoming hereabouts. I’d much prefer enjoying the festivities than whipping out the red pen (and my students would probably be happier, too!). Not that I can enjoy too many …
I love to teach. Love, love, love it. I’m constantly learning new things — which as anyone who knows me knows, is something I can’t get enough of. I’ll yak about the things I know and listen to the things I don’t for free, so getting paid to do it …
Last August our new department chair asked for volunteers to look at redesigning our current website; long story short, I ended up doing a full revision of the layout and coding from scratch. The new one is hosted on the “testing” area of my site here while the department looks …
Last night I spoke for about an hour at the Charleston Library Society about Robert Jordan as an “American Tolkien.” The talk appears to have been a success. About 70 people showed up according to the chair of my department, which may be some sort of record. I have no …