A few years have passed and I've begun two or three other blogs and wikis for other purposes, but I'm heading abroad and am going to ask my students to blog and vlog while in London. Thus, I thought I should refresh my own memory on how to post with Blogger.


From a post on the Sidney-Spenser listserve begun by Brad Tuggle; here are some early-modern resources online:

• ARCADE: Literature, Humanities, & the World (http://arcade.stanford.edu/) 
• Appositions: (http://appositions.blogspot.com) 
• Connotations: (www.connotations.de) 
• Discoveries (http://www.scrc.us.com/discoveries/) 
• The Hare (http://thehareonline.com) 
• Early Modern Literary Studies online journal (http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html) 
• The Sidney Society's official web site (www.SidneySociety.org) 
• Spenser Online (http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/) 
• Sidney Society Twitter (@SidneySociety) (https://twitter.com/SidneySociety) 
• The Collation - The Folger’s blog (http://collation.folger.edu) 
• Iter Announcements Service (http://www.itergateway.org/announcements) 
• Early Modern Online Bibliography (http://earlymodernonlinebib.wordpress.com) 
• Journal of the Northern Renaissance (http://www.northernrenaissance.org) 
• This Rough Magic: the Teaching of Medieval and Renaissance Literature (http://www.thisroughmagic.org/index.html) 
• Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies (http://www.clemson.edu/upstart/index.html) 
• The Appendix (http://theappendix.net/blog) 
• Shakespearean Exteriority - Kevin Curran (http://shakespeareanexteriority.wordpress.com) 
• Tudor Stuff - Andrew Walsh (http://tudorstuff.wordpress.com) 
• Wine Dark Sea - Michael Witmore (http://winedarksea.org) 
• Old Men Explore - Roger Kuin (http://rogerkuin.blogspot.com/) 
• Six Degrees of Francis Bacon (http://sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com) 
• the Zeugmatic (http://zeugmatic.org) 

The next step, of course, is creating a feed page that updates RSS feeds, etc. But that will be, of course, another story.

a rebirth

So, in the list of things that have happened over the tumultuous past year, I had another son, got a job a thousand miles away, packed up the house, put the house on the market, moved to the south, and found and bought a house. This doesn't do justice to the details or the support we got from our family, but it gives some sense of why I haven't blogged.

Conferences...

So I've attended plenty of conferences in my career as professional student, scholar, and professor, but I've never spoken or presented before. That's about to change, however, as I recently heard that I'll be presenting on the subject of rhetorical pleasure--think to teach (docere), to delight (delectare) and move (movere)--this fall. This is great news and I'm pleased as punch, but I'm also starting to get nervous. I mean, it's one of the principle elements of the profession to "profess" your beliefs about your subject, but I've been part of the audience so long that I'm concerned about my ability to present my own ideas. This is just nervousness, of course, but I still feel it acutely.

On the subject of the job hunt, I've had some interest at a few different schools, but I get the feeling some institutions might think me overqualified or disinterested. In fact, I heard directly from one school that interviewed me that one reason why they didn't hire me was because I had a PhD and they assumed I would only stay with their program until I had a better offer. As I know I'm writing for myself, I don't have to explain that this simply isn't true, but if you ever read this post B.R. you should know I would have done a lot to work at your school. Meh...I'm not going to get sour grapes, but I may start posting my rejection letters here (at least the form letters!)