Super-quick post because I am (with Awesome Husband) visiting the in-laws this weekend, but awesome things are awesome and cannot wait! girlinventor has made podfic of two of my stories! And she has a lovely voice and can even manage all-dialogue scenes in such a way that it's totally clear who's who. Amazing. *is honored*

Links: "Do You Want To Know A Secret ( ( Read more... )

So...kind of a neat thing: a while ago, a colleague and I had submitted a potential chapter proposal for inclusion in an essay collection on medievalism and the uses of the medieval in video games. (Ours is on Arthurian themes and echoes in World of Warcraft; no, I don't play WoW; I am the medievalist half of our writing team, and my lovely co- ( Read more... )

Today Brantley Bryant, the mastermind behind the fantastic Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog, stopped by our campus to give a talk, about his reveal as the Chaucer Blogger last year, about medievalism, playfulness, the place for pleasure in academia, and many other things. I've known Brantley (er, not in the biblical sense, no) for several years now, ( Read more... )

My students were working in small groups, and I was walking around to check on them, and overheard this. I swear I am not making this up ( Read more... )

I have to teach in three hours. I hope that a) I am mentally prepared for this course, and b) that they are a good class. It is a class I have taught before but not since 2009, and I have changed the syllabus/course materials around quite a bit. *is nervous*

I am pleased that I have managed to get Grimm's fairy tales, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night ( Read more... )

So, I teach in the English Department at Unnamed Large State University here in SoCal. Today, at our fall orientation meeting, the head of our writing program tried to explain ways to combat plagiarism. This culminated in this glorious piece of advice ( Read more... )