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It’s been a long, strange year. Like many, I’m damn delighted to see it go. Like counting the minutes until midnight and …

If you haven’t been in a room with 25 anxious graduating seniors on exam day, only to receive a confusing message from …

Amid the debates about whether we’re starting a new year or a new decade, I saw a Twitter thread last week about …

Over the last several years, I’ve started to take a much more critical approach to my pedagogy. I’ve chosen more complex and …

Ask any educator. August is a month full of intense ambivalence. The last vestiges of summer feel tinged with anxiety over to-dos …

I wasn’t supposed to be in the office that Tuesday morning, but the deadline for a conference paper was looming, and I …

Last year, I felt like I’d just won the lottery. (If the lottery involved seven years of graduate study and three cycles …

The first of three alarms would blare at 5:30 a.m., with back-ups set for 5:34 and 5:36, respectively. (I learned after the …

I love the stereotypical image of a writer: A solitary figure, holed up somewhere chain smoking and drinking buckets of booze coffee, …

The nerves started to set in a week before. While chopping veggies for dinner, I observed: “I’m going to be presenting to …