My first year here at The Citadel I was made faculty advisor to The Shako, the Literary Magazine of The Citadel. It was a surprising thing for me, but I’ve tried to take advantage of it for the past four years. I like to think that the publication is better …
If I’ve been a bit absent of late, there’s a reason: The 4 weeks or so that I’m right in the middle of at the moment are probably my busiest of the year. First off, there’s the teaching load. Papers have been coming in for each of my classes, and …
What’s my life like these days? Well, here’s a selection of snapshots from my life this past week: Saturday, 2:54 pm. Idly thinking about what Wednesday’s Tolkien lecture will focus on, I begin to ponder the possibility of a new philological reading for a line in The Hobbit. The idea …
Well, they’re baaaaaaaaack. The cadets have returned to campus. Classes start on Wednesday. I can’t say that I’m quite ready. With so much of my break taken up by Brunanburh I’ve hardly had a chance to think about the coming semester. I’ve drafted syllabi, but not much beyond that. I’d …
As some readers are aware, I was finally able to teach Tolkien here at The Citadel as an Honors class last Spring, which was great fun. Happily, this opened the door that I’d been banging my head against for quite some time: the chance to teach Tolkien as a 200-level …