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- A Cup of Tea with My Knitting, Please — A former student on knitting, newlywed life, and other matters
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- G. Ross Key — The guy who helped me stay fairly sane in my M.A. program
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Category Archives: Medievalia
Saturday Potpourri: Happy New (Academic) Year Edition
So Year 17 of my Mondoville career began this week, with a little more attendant scrambling than usual. Still, I have the urge to write, so here we are. *** I have a weirdly unbalanced schedule this term. In the … Continue reading
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Farewell to a Giant
David Bevington, one of the world’s leading scholars of early English drama, died on Friday, 2 Aug. He was 88 years old. While he is best known for his Shakespearean studies (I use his edition of the Complete Works for my classes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Literature, Medievalia, Why I Do What I Do
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In Which the Prof Leaves a Very Small Mark, and Is Content
A few minutes ago, I was looking to see if a story I wrote many years ago is still available online (It is, but it takes some digging, as the webzine no longer appears to be active. And there’s another one … Continue reading
Sunday Potpourri: Setting Clocks in the Punjab Edition
Had strange dreams overnight that caused me to wake up needing to know the time difference between my old home in Northern KY and an odd hotel (and by odd, I mean nonexistent) in New Delhi, India. (For the record, … Continue reading
Posted in Alternating Feet, Culture, Education, Family, Literature, Medievalia, Music
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Air Ball…
Early in my career at Mondoville, our Dean of Admissions declared in a faculty meeting that there was no point in recruiting “Duke and Davidson”-type students because we didn’t have “Duke and Davidson”-level professors. (This was during the administration in … Continue reading
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Potpourri: Muddling Along…
Sorry I’ve been AWOL for a few days — I’ve been doing some committee work, helping with recruiting efforts, and other campus-oriented stuff. Indeed, I just got home from the monthly faculty meeting about half an hour ago. So let’s … Continue reading
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Excitable Boys and Accidental Martyrs
While I was in Florida, a Facebook friend of mine posted a link to an article about the life and death of Warren Zevon. Writer Steven Hyden is pretty evenhanded in the piece, noting both Zevon’s artistic gifts and his … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature, Medievalia, Music, Pixel-stained Wretchery
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