Both conferences went very well. Someone pointed out at PAMLA that, despite being the youngest presenter, I was the only one not reading (that is, gazing down at the paper and literally reading it off) while speaking, which was nice to hear. And I got to hear Alan Gaylord (!) read Chaucer, which was just wonderful. He was the third person on our ( Read more... )

...preferably before he sends out press releases like this one: http://newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1959Read more... )

Okay, it's about time I a)used this thing, and b)actually tried to create a (semi) professional presence for myself. I think I'm mostly going to use this for posting writing and publication news, from whichever half of my literary life has any. To be clear, I'm working on my PhD (I just got the MA this year, so it's on to the rest) in English, ( Read more... )