I teach English at a small liberal arts university in North Carolina, where I'm also the coordinator of the Critical Thinking Program. My scholarly interests are in early modern British literature; my nonscholarly reading habits range far and wide, but veer towards creative nonfiction and history, especially history of cities. This blog is mostly about things that I read, but my interest in photography and food shows up here too.
7 April 2013
Last night, I attended play called Conjure: the Folklore of Dr. Jim Jordan at one of our local cultural centers. The story is narrated by F. Roy Johnson, who founded...
Authorship and Critical Thinking
3 April 2013
This morning, a number of my early modern tweeps we in a bit of a fuss over a post at Brain Pickings, a site I normally like. But the post in question made me roll my eyes excessively,...
2 April 2013
CN TowerI spent the last several days in Toronto, at the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America. I cannot emphasize enough how much I have enjoyed attending this conference:...