I’m just about all recovered from my illness now, and with recovery comes good news. In a couple weeks James O. Rigney, Jr. — a writer known to most of the world by his pseudonym, Robert Jordan — will become the 47th inductee in the South Carolina Academy of Authors. …
Alas, the fun of the break had to end sometime. I start teaching tonight. On the plus side, this does mean that I won’t feel so stupid when I wake up and start putting on my uniform out of habit.
In the course of doing some research on giants today, I started looking into what’s known about the Wilmington Long Man, a 235-foot figure on the side of a hill in the South Downs. (A good discussion, from which many of the following facts and figures are taken, is here.) …
From a fellow English professor here at The Citadel comes this link to a wonderful little story from PBS’ NewsHour about teaching poetry at West Point. I think they do a good job of situating both the difficulty and the necessity of teaching poetry (or drama or the novel or…) …
It’s that time of year again, kids! Grading, grading, and more grading. I’m about 1/3 of the way through my research paper stacks, and then I’ll have finals to slog through over the next week. So I might be a bit sparse around here as a result. It won’t be …