I’d be willing!

Thank you for this summer camp experience.

I’m most excited about finding a home for Virtual Hemingway, which now lists more than 400 Hemingway-related sites! I am also pleased to have a site about my academic accomplishments. I plan to add the URL to my email signature to show off all this work!

Austen scholar Devoney Looser just published…[Read more]

I didn’t realize I could create a whole separate website using the Humanities Commons, so this Summer Camp has been very useful to me. I’ve been trying to figure out a space to host Virtual Hemingway, a digital project consisting of more than 250 links to (mostly reputable) Hemingway-related material online. While it’s taken me a bit of time,…[Read more]

I am still trying to get permission to share some of my published work in CORE, but meanwhile I found an excellent article in CORE that might be of interest to many current and aspiring academics:  Devoney Looser’s essay “Me and My Shadow C.V.,” about the many failures and rejections we have to face in submitting conference proposals, publishing…[Read more]

Since I’m working on an essay on Hemingway and ecocriticism, I decided to ask the Environmental Humanities group about texts I should read on ecocriticism and modernism more generally. I’ll be interested to see what happens next.

I’ve found a number of people to follow, but I’ve been disappointed that there are so few people in Hemingway studies and even modernism more generally who have a presence here. I think one of the problems is that those groups have existing networks (email lists, newsletters, journals, Facebook groups) already and don’t see the need to join.…[Read more]