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 …
The Gold Star Journal — the scholarly counterpart to The Shako, publishing the very best academic work of The Citadel’s cadets — once again features an essay from one of my classes. This time, it’s an essay from my Honors Tolkien class, “The Precious and the Pearl,” by Noah Koubenec. …
I celebrated getting through the past 5 weeks — one of the busiest times I’ve seen in many years — by seeing Avatar with my buddy Keith, who was here to give his own paper at the PAC conference. Herewith, my feelings about the film:
Well, the truth behind the word hobbit, anyway. Tomorrow morning I’ll be giving a brief talk at the College of Charleston about the medieval origins of Tolkien’s most famous (supposed) coinage. Mine is the last paper in a set of three about Tolkien, the first session in the annual meeting …
There are many things I find wondrous about having a child, but today I was thinking about the amusing and enlightening fact that my three-year-old takes my questions seriously. I am somewhat accustomed to people taking my questions seriously in general, of course — I am, after all, a teacher …