Self-Promotion: I Did AcWriMo 2013 and Survived to Tell the Tale
My most recent post for HASTAC, in which I complainbrag about spending the last two and half months crushing my dissertation, and muse about AcWriMo and the Pomodoro Technique.
View ArticleLiz’s Advice For Making Your Life Better: Part One!
Note: This post is “Part One” because I anticipate having tons of advice to dispense on this subject. In all seriousness, I do think at some point I will write something about the technology I use to...
View ArticleLiz’s Advice For Making Your Life Better, Part Two: Better Grading Through...
As promised in my very long title, this post will focus on making your life better if, like me, you spend way too much of your life grading. Cross-posted at my HASTAC blog. My purpose in this post is...
View ArticleSelf-Promotion: I’m Crying Already, Managing Affect, and That Time I Almost Died
I just wrote something for the Affect & Inquiry Symposium blog, originally published here, and copied below. ——— The final discussion of the Affect & Inquiry symposium was a patchwork of...
View ArticleSelf Promotion: A Sense of Wonder and Other Feminist Feelings
I wrote a piece for Deletion: The Open Access Online Forum in Science Fiction Studies, in which I connect SF theory (particularly feminist SF theory) with affect studies. It appears in Episode 4: The...
View ArticleMini-Reading: The Problem With How I Met Your Mother–Resolved!
I feel compelled to comment about this show again, now that it’s over. Let me start by saying I was onto something but also way off when I predicted HIMYM would drag out the wedding by making it last...
View ArticleTeaching Notes: Using a Class Blog
This semester for the second time I’m having my students keep a class blog for their “informal” writing. I put informal in quotation marks, because as I explain in my assignment sheet to them, the mere...
View ArticleTeaching Notes: The Salt Roads
Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads combines folktale, myth, historical fiction and science fiction. It tells the story of a newborn Ginen goddess (called Lasirén or Ezili) coming to awareness of herself...
View ArticleTeaching Notes: The City & the City
China Miéville states in an interview included in the trade paperback version of his 2009 novel The City & the City that he considers the book “a crime novel, above all” (316)—which makes it sound...
View ArticleSelf-Promotion: Introduction, and Thoughts on a Learning Commons
My first post as a HASTAC Scholar, in which I ramble about the Learning Commons at the University of Iowa’s Main Library.
View ArticleFull-Sized Reading: Heavy Rain, Empathy, and the Problem of Player Agency
I gave a version of this paper at the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference in October 2013. It’s basically a rant about a video game I do not like. Enjoy! —– I...
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