Published at Chronicle Vitae on July 5, 2016. Fatalism absolves our responsibility for the world around us. Fatalism leads us to accept the inequalities of academia as normative and unfixable. I can’t bear it anymore; you shouldn’t bear it anymore, either.
Published at Chronicle Vitae on March 8, 2016. In short, I would be both the recommender and the recommended. That turn of events left me unsettled. For a moment, I felt simultaneously ancient and young. After all, my student was at the beginning of a potential career, and I am still trying to figure out what […]
Published by Killing the Buddha on June 8, 2016. Small hands darted into brambles to pick the juicy, sun-ripened fruit. My hands ended up scratched and bleeding from our efforts, but I continued to pick more. Wounds that led to a reward seemed somehow sweeter. The agony was worth it. But, I gave up on romanticizing […]
Published at Chronicle Vitae on May 16, 2016. Rejection forced me to find another career and another way to live in this world. Rejection opened me up to possibilities I never would have imagined and allowed me space to recognize that academia was only a part of my world, not the defining feature. Rejection made me […]
Published at Chronicle Vitae on May 3, 2016. The emails and messages were anomalies in my life that I tried to make into funny stories about the weirdness of being a scholar in the Internet age. When freelance writing became my career, the messages were no longer anomalies but constant realities. I’m a woman who writes on […]
Published at Chronicle Vitae on May 27, 2016. I am, however, fascinated by what these gory human-eating monsters tell us about American culture in various historical moments. Why is it always zombies? I’m still working that one out. This means I’ve spent much time reading and thinking about the scholarship on zombies, horror, fear, and monsters […]