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Who wrote Frankenstein

Germaine Greer neatly shreds John Lauritsen’s argument that Mary Shelley didn’t write Frankenstein. Hat tip: Erin O’Connor. Also see Miriam Burstein’s comments.

Off to Chicago today

This evening I board a plane for my one-day AERA adventure. My panel: “Semi-semiotic pandering pondering to laborious Laborite Labradors wanting wandering to two serious series of off quadrilateral extensions of path-codeficient metalinguistic metallurgical discourses of No Child Left Behind.” Sigh. Not only wasn’t that panel accepted, I didn’t even propose it. But I’m goin’ […]

Trip to Atlanta, but no pictures

I had a great time yesterday in Atlanta: talked at Emory, visited Morehouse College, spoke with a bunch of exciting graduate students in different disciplines.  I’m going to be paying for it in the next few days in exhaustion, and my throat’s already telling me I should expect a head cold soon, but it was […]

Book geography thanks to Google

Google Books now has an interesting feature: in one page, you can find all the places mentioned in a book displayed on a map.  I just discovered it for Education Reform in Florida.

Notes from the underground academic

Tidbits from the last few days: I’ve been so busy with various things that I forgot to note that two days after Accountability Frankenstein appeared on my doorstep, Education Reform in Florida appeared at my office. Two books in three days: not bad. Tomorrow I head to Atlanta and a talk Wednesday at Emory. Gotta […]