It was 1879 when Francis decided to leave the shores of Éire behind. Born at the tail-end of the Potato Famine, he found himself at…
English Professor and Storyteller
It was 1879 when Francis decided to leave the shores of Éire behind. Born at the tail-end of the Potato Famine, he found himself at…
Karl and Magdalena lived near Stuttgart — actually, it was a little village called “New House on the Fildern” (Hiemstra). A beautiful town outside of…
Before the Disney Renaissance, I watched Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg’s 1986 animated class, An American Tale, so many times. My grandparents had this fancy speed…
Somedays, I feel like I’m unraveling; others, I feel like I’m unwinding yarn off of a skein to make a project flow smoothly. I suppose…
All this talk about conferences raising an important issue: air travel. Some people fly so regularly that they wouldn’t give this issue a second thought.…
As I learned more about Appalachian folklore, I found the announcement for the 49th Annual Conference of the Appalachian Studies Association and realized that perhaps…
When I last mentioned AI, I spoke of academia needing to adapt — but I had no idea how much evolution would lie ahead for…
Ever since I worked as a secretary at the University of Florida’s Department of Material Science and Engineering, the term “H-Index” has existed in my…
For years, I saved a bookmark to a particular institution’s OpenCourseWare files in case I wanted to teach myself something (read: I got some masochistic…
After spending time scouring my settings to determine exactly how to remove these pervasive ads covering this blog, I realized the “free” theme isn’t free…