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Failing Loudly

galumphing through a career in academia

Month: September 2017

Written by VictoriaSeptember 16, 2017September 16, 2017

in which I drink too much grape juice and accept I will never be Robin Williams

The first book I ever taught to undergraduates was Jamaica Kincaid’s An Autobiography of My Mother. I was a TA in Terry Doody’s Twentieth-Century British Literature course at Rice University. That morning I had downed what was just a ridiculous amount of grape juice. I still don’t know why I did that. It did not end […]

Written by VictoriaSeptember 3, 2017September 3, 2017

in which I refuse to say that I did not get enough done this summer

So it turns out that, in addition to trying to exit important academic interviews through hotel bathrooms, I also fail spectacularly at keeping a regular blogging schedule. But in the spirit of Failing Loudly — meh. Whatever. Because after a (much needed) mid-August week of vacation at Lake Lure, North Carolina — home of the […]

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