Unfortunately, I was one of the members of the English discipline who was denied tenure (and given a terminal contract), despite having full approval of my dept, my dean, the tenure and promotion committee, and the VPAA. English has been a thriving major at the College, and we've been decimated.
Today the Board at St. Norbert College wrote to deny all applications for tenure and promotion. 4 of the 5 faculty still up for tenure were in the humanities, and 2 of the 5 were in my discipline of English, which means humanities has now lost 18 positions, and English has gone from 8 faculty to 3.
Very excited about Victorian Poetry’s new Early Career Essay Prize! Deadline for submissions is June 30. Details below! Please share widely — and encourage untenured scholars working on great projects to submit their work!
This was written about pundits but profs should think hard about giving space to others as they push into their 50s & 60s; the same reasons apply
Why is this like reading a Scott novel? NOW WE HAVE ARRIVED AT THE PLOT! Nevermind, just another prefatory framework.
If you live in a place where the entire sky is covered by dense clouds, I highly recommend this broadcast as a chance to vicariously experience it.
looks like the people of the Sun yearn for democracy and freedom
The US will lose more than 30 gigawatts of solar energy during the total eclipse — roughly the output of 30 nuclear reactors — as sunlight is blocked during prime generating hours
The US will lose more than 30 gigawatts of solar energy during Monday’s total eclipse — roughly the output of 30 nuclear reactors — as sunlight is blocked during prime generating hours.
Much talk about what an eclipse looks like but if you live in a house next to an elementary school it SOUNDS like the chaos of an alien invasion.
Watching the eclipse to a soundtrack of screaming children who all had to sign waivers and have false alarmed totality more times than I can count thanks to clouds. 🤣✨😎