In no particular order:
I’ll be heading back east to visit family and friends in December. And yes, I’ll be in Philadelphia for the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association at the same time as many of the folks who read this blog. I’d be happy to meet as many of you as want to get together at this annual shin-dig. Last year, I met up with Chuck and Kathleen in the hotel bar (and I met Steven Shaviro briefly).
This year there seem to be many more likely-to-attend-MLA bloggers who are aware of each other. With that in mind, I’ve taken the liberty of creating MLA Bloggers. If you’d like to contribute, send me an email.
Also, let’s all write to the organizers of the MLA to ask them to put the entire conference program online, so that misrepresentations of the work we do will not be quite so easy to get away with. What the heck, let’s all write MLA President Robert Scholes.
Bonus Links: “
The Academic Job Interview Revisited,” by Mary Dillon Johnson (via Prof Grrrrl).
So, as I’ve mentioned, I’m gearing up for various grant applications, and I’m also planning on very shortly circulating a book proposal. This very afternoon I’m looking at the current state of what I have, and it looks pretty darned good. I mean, I’d want to read this work, but then I’m not the most objective judge.
Coincidentally, I corresponded today with a grad student who has downloaded my dissertation. How freaky is that!?
Given that my stuff is out there on the web, already (for a fee), I am trying to decide (get to the point, George):
Should I post my book proposal and/or abstract here on my blog? Should I post it on my official homepage? Should I not post it at all?
What are the advantages and disadvantages, the potential drawbacks and vulnerabilities? Please advise.
Ahem. I’ve edited my blogroll, dropping a few blogs I don’t really read, and adding a bunch more for which I’ve been using Bloglines. There’s a grad student at the University of Missouri-Columbia who blogs, but I can’t seem to find her address right now. I plan to add her, too. And pehaps some others who are escaping my memory right now.
That is all. Carry on.
No, seriously! Parrish has the full story and great pix.