Reading Time: 3 minutes Ah, summertime, when academics everywhere finally get to work on our research. Mine, I realize, is focused on queer identities in fairy tales, since that’s the most exciting thing to me right now.
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Posted inBooks
My personal science fiction/fantasy canon: ‘Weirdo Feminist’
Reading Time: 4 minutes The spring semester is over but my brain is still melted from it and the rest of me is burnt out too, so here’s a fun little personal essay I’d submitted elsewhere and that had been rejected (yes, that happens to even the great Dr. Jorgensen). Ruminations on identity and SFF (science fiction/fantasy) follow.
Posted inEducation, General
Reflections on Teaching First-Year Writing
Reading Time: 5 minutes Since I’m teaching First Year Seminar this year, I’m teaching academic writing skills through a variety of assignments…but of course, this is making me reflect on when and how I first learned to write.
Posted inEducation, General, Myth & Folklore
What I’ve Been Up to in the Folklore World
Reading Time: 5 minutes A lot of academic work is invisible and goes unrewarded…well, somehow a bunch of rewards just dropped into my lap all at once, so I thought I’d share them here (since my blog varies in its folklore content but that’s kinda my main profession, at least for now!).
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2020 Was the Year of the Personal Essay for Me
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite being badly burned out this year, I published two personal essays and had a third accepted. Here’s what I’ve learned.
Posted inCulture, General, Myth & Folklore
Folklore, Pandemic, and You
Reading Time: 4 minutes Being a folklorist in a time of global pandemic is interesting, and our discipline’s insights aren’t as useless as one might think. Here, I go into some of what we bring to the (socially isolated) party.
Posted inCulture, General, Sex & Gender
Stop Building Plots on Women’s Bodies
Reading Time: 5 minutes This post contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Consider yourselves warned (fyi, the blog image is from the trailer, so it is not itself a spoiler for anything).
Posted inEducation, General
#ICFA39 Recap: Frankenstein!
Reading Time: 6 minutes A return to the conference blogging…which is also about the return of the uncanny and the undead, appropriately enough, given that this year’s ICFA theme was Frankenstein!
Posted inGeneral, Myth & Folklore
Not Seeing God (In Time for the Holidays!)
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m really pleased to have an essay about the Bible as folklore in this book with contributors from all over the Patheos Nonreligious channel!
Posted inEducation, General
#TriangleSCI 2017 Wrap-Up
Reading Time: 5 minutes How does one reintegrate into daily life after a whirlwind scholarly communication conference? Rather slowly, it turns out.