In my upper-level survey and seminar classes, I assign students a final project with a lot of self-direction. They get to choose whether to work solo or in a small group (2-4 students). They get to choose whether […]

In a post on her Substack the process early this year, Irina Dumitrescu wrote:

Whatever we have done so far is not enough, it disappears into the past, the reckoning that matters is still to come, and it is […]

In my upper-level survey and seminar classes, I assign students a final project with a lot of self-direction. They get to choose whether to work solo or in a small group (2-4 students). They get to choose whether […]

In September, I moved to Moscow expecting to stay for three years.

I moved to Moscow to continue on campus the job I had been doing remotely for a year already at that point, a job that I took because, after […]

Years ago on a camping trip when the kids were little, my friend GB, a career service member, introduced me to the idea that when you need to measure something, you don’t actually need a tape measure. Anything […]

Since the international moving company packed most of what I wanted to bring to Moscow on August 10th, I’ve been living out of suitcases.

In those three months and change, I have waffled between feelings of […]

My bus/tram/trolley stop is Покровские ворота (Pokrovski’e vorota, Pokrovsky Gates), and I would like to know where the gates are please.

Because there are no gates visible. None whatsoever at the intersectio […]

CW: This post contains discussion of food, activity, and weight. Sensitive readers might prefer to skip it. 

Two thousand steps before breakfast would have been a better title, and I thought about it, but it’s […]

The day I arrived in Moscow was a beautiful day with blue skies and mild temperatures, but I was exhausted from an overnight flight with little sleep and drama with renting The Gallery (a story for another post 😉 […]

The attraction of travel writing is that, like travel, it offers us the chance to see something different. A different climate, different topology, different food ways, different language, different […]

It’s standard practice in the Russian Federation that rented apartments come furnished. Over the last few months of looking at online rental postings, I came to realize that “furnished” is a broad term, ranging […]

Russians often talk about how expensive it is to live in Moscow, and I mostly believe them. I suppose it’s much more expensive here than living in one of Russia’s smaller cities or villages. Honestly, though, […]

This post is part of a series on Writing Pedagogy.

The review of the literature, also called a lit review,  is a tricky sub-genre of scholarly writing.  It sometimes shows up as a standalone document in class a […]

Dear Universities,

Find ways to recognize and celebrate the contributions of your departing contingent faculty the way you celebrate administrators and professors who retire or move to new […]