How to Succeed in Graduate School With Actually Trying (Part 3)
Read Part One. Read Part Two. I see many incoming graduate students asking for advice on Twitter, and I am here to give you the real deal. (Turns chair...
How to Succeed in Graduate School With Actually Trying (Part 2)
Read Part One. I see many incoming graduate students asking for advice on Twitter, and I am here to give you the real deal. (Turns chair backward and...
How to Succeed in Graduate School With Actually Trying (Part 1)
I see many incoming graduate students asking for advice on Twitter, and I am here to give you the real deal. (Turns chair backward and straddles it). A lot...
Longform John Silvers
I’ll spare you the thinkpieces on The Chair and give you some of the other things I’m reading this week. Towards a Unified Theory of Peloton The Mysterious...
Chappaquiddick, in theaters now.
I hate to be that sort of grad student who is constantly claiming "I have no life; my dissertation is my life!" but yea, that's where I am at because there's...
Toxic Wellness
There’s a trend (ok, two shows in a row about spoiled people at expensive resorts) and as I watch television, and pretend to not take it so seriously, but in...
I Miss My MTV: Accidentally Queer
Many music videos are queer even if they are not showing explicitly queer behaviors; the nature of the medium allows for a break from traditional narrative,...
F you, F Boy Island
Maya Angelou said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” I am sure she had the abyssmal show Fboy Island in mind when she said...
Long live the longform article
Let me help you cut through the garbage and get to the good stuff… There’s not one, but two recent pieces exposing Goodreads as bad for authors, bad for...
Sounds and the City
I recently moved, which is interesting to me only. Some people are surprised that I moved to a downtown of a city whose downtown is not very thriving...
Sifting Through the Sludge
There is still some good writing on the internet; these journalists probably aren't getting paid enough for it. When I read something I love, my reaction is...
Discussion Questions for Teaching The Tomorrow War in your seminar
Discuss the story structure. Did the writers purposely make three different films to refute a general story structure? Does this make it outsider art? How...
The Zoom Archive and Repertoire
Remember to mute yourselves. Can you see my screen? I’m going to make you a host. If you have questions, please add them to the chat. Sorry, my cat keeps...
I Miss My MTV: The Iconic, Often Forgotten, Perfect Shakespeare's Sister
Shakespears Sister - Stay (Official Video) - YouTube Taken from the album “Hormonally Yours” released February 17th 1992Listen to “Stay” ⇨...
I Miss My MTV: Girls Gone Wild (Walking on Broken Glass)
Ladies be horny, am I right? We continue our journey into lusty videos with “Walking on Broken Glass.” (1992) Annie Lennox, like most of us, watched...
I Miss My MTV: Women Gone Wild (I Get Weak)
Music videos of the MTV era are about sexual desire. Putting it on display, assuring the audience about who is sexually desirable, who deserves to be desired...
Tales of Tenure Terror: Do what you love and you'll never be paid for a day in your life
Since I have written the last one of these, there’s been so many potential to write about because academics keep! Going! Wild! Whether its double downing on...
I Miss My MTV: Intergalactic Choreo
The Backstreet Boys, "Larger Than Life" (1999) One of my favorite science fiction tropes involves space travel that takes so long that passengers need to be...
The Guilty Remnant
I was a guest on the Positively Popular Culture Podcast talking about The Leftovers, one of my top 5 tv show...no, pieces of media ever. Also, as you can see...
I'm Going Through Changes
I’m moving…to downtown Toledo in June. Very excited to live like a savvy city girl again. This small college town has been good to me, but I’m ready to break...