Category Archives: Academia

Some Thoughts About Intersectionality

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Sharyn

Intersectionality has been on my mind a lot lately. It’s an important concept in my scholarly work, but it is having a larger cultural impact right now, I think, and it might be instructive to consider this impact more closely. … Continue reading →

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End of Semester Breakdown

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Sharyn

There’s just one more week left in the Fall Semester and, as usual, I am ready to be DONE. There are still piles of grading and then two more classes to teach, final exams to put together, and student evals … Continue reading →

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Conference Con 2016!

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Sharyn

Apologies for no post last week–my work load got a bit overwhelming and then the election sort of deflated me for a few days. Then, I had to head off the the 2016 convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association … Continue reading →

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What Do You Find Boring? podcast edition

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Sharyn

I am an avid podcast listener. I have a number of subscriptions of my phone and separate set of subscriptions on my running iPod. They run the gamut of genres, from true crime (Casefile) to comedy (The Flop House) to … Continue reading →

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And So it Begins

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Sharyn

Fall 2016, that is. Classes at my university start on Monday, but I don’t have a face to face (F2F) class meeting until Tuesday. As I often do, I am teaching 2 sections of my course load F2F, and 2 … Continue reading →

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Grind & Rewind

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Sharyn

I’ve been having a lot of trouble preparing a blog post for this week. There have been some interesting things happening in the news, but I haven’t found anything that really struck me as fascinating or blog worthy. Nothing has … Continue reading →

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Truthiness & Consequences

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Sharyn

Chances are that you’ve heard something about First Lady candidate Melania Trump and her oopsie of a speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention. It already has a nice Wikipedia entry: Melania Trump speech plagiarism controversy. There was much discussion … Continue reading →

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Making Black Lives Matter

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Sharyn

I don’t have a lot to say in this post this week–last week was a very difficult week for the US, and for our nation’s Black citizens in particular. At this point, it seems incomprehensible that concepts like white privilege, … Continue reading →

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One Week. 1300+ Essays Scored.

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Sharyn

And I am back from the 2016 scoring for AP English Language exams in Kansas City, MO. It was, as always, an intense week, but probably the best experience I’ve had at AP reading so far. I had an absolutely … Continue reading →

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The Blog is Off This Week

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Sharyn

No blog post this week, as I am off in Kansas City, MO, grading Advanced Placement exams. It’s hard work, but I am excited to spend time in KC, which I have found surprisingly vegan friendly the past few times … Continue reading →

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