2021 02 01 tweets
Replying to @EthanWatrall and @kmapesy
This whole conversation makes me retroactively super happy.
Replying to @DrYoFiggy and @sochum
Huge congrats! This is so great!
Replying to @melissaterras
Thanks so much for this, Melissa! It means a ton, especially right now. ❤️
Do you have experience working toward transformative change in academia, or do you know someone who does? I'm seeking interviewees to help support the revision of Leading Generously. More info: https://kfitz.info/lg-call-for-respondents/
Replying to @sharonmleon
Huge congratulations to you and the whole @omeka team!
Evergreen. https://twitter.com/ryancollman/status/1362036767612956677
So… I gave a Zoom talk today and forgot to actually show my slides. I mean, I ran the deck, and used the presenter’s notes. I just never shared my screen. Frankly, it’s possible it was better that way.
Ironically, the last trip I took, in February 2020, was to Cancun. By the time we left to come home, it had started to feel like traveling was a bad idea — and there was only one known COVID-19 case in that part of Mexico.
Replying to @kfitz
Within a week of getting home, everything had locked down tight. And the trip felt like some kind of fever dream.
Replying to @kfitz
I’d love to go back, for sure. And I could do my job from anywhere right now! But I’m neither an idiot nor a selfish monster.
RT @achdotorg: #ACH2021 is possible because of the incredible work of our colleagues in Texas. Given the circumstances, the CFP deadline h…
Which academic press am I? Verso Books. I feel seen enough to want to lower the blinds.
“You tend toward speaking in manifesto-esque monologues, but it’s not your fault if people keep listening.”
Hmph. https://www.publicbooks.org/quizzical-which-academic-press-are-you/
Replying to @kylebeachy
CalArts?
Replying to @elotroalex and @DukePress
Ooh, that’s awesome. Congratulations — I can’t wait!
I dreamed about yamagobo last night. I need a visit to a west coast sushi bar and I need it soon.
Three more days to submit. We hope you’re all well and safe, and we hope you’ll join us for #ACH2021! https://twitter.com/achdotorg/status/1362521027255930880
In other @achdotorg news, we’re having a membership drive! Our dues are amazingly low and the impact they provide is high: mentoring, open-access publishing, community, and more. See our message here, and join us! https://members.ach.org/civicrm/mailing/view/?id=31&reset=1
RT @achdotorg: Have you renewed your ACH membership? Interested in joining for the first time? Find out more at https://members.ach.org/civicrm/mailing/view/?id=31&reset=1 htt…
RT @veek: We've kicked off a membership drive at @achdotorg. See below for benefit details, huge for such a tiny scrappy org. Book discount…
By the by, another reason to join or renew your membership in @achdotorg today? Elections for our new executive council open next week, and your membership must be current to vote! https://members.ach.org
As a literary scholar by training, most of my research method across my career has pretty much looked like “read book, take notes, read more book, take more notes, outline ideas, revisit notes, draft something messy, read more book” and so on. +
Replying to @kfitz
For Leading Generously, though, my method has branched out to include listening to *people*. And WOW is this exciting. +
Replying to @kfitz
I have so far learned how to design an interview protocol, to put together an informed consent document, and to submit the documentation necessary to convince the IRB that the project is exempt. +
Replying to @kfitz
And yesterday I got to conduct my first interview, which I’m now transcribing the key bits of. How utterly amazing to get to listen to people’s stories, to ask them questions, and to think with them about what I can learn from their experiences. +
Replying to @kfitz
I am certain that in the weeks and months ahead I’m going to discover all the ways in which I’m doing it wrong, but boy is this fun right now.
Replying to @DLaurence401
Ooh, that’s a really great question! I’ll have to pay attention to that as I move forward.
Replying to @BerondaM
I would 💯 agree with that — and not incidentally say that the academy would benefit from more STEM folks with the souls of literary scholars, and more literary scholars trying to think like social scientists, and etc!
I just had cause to say out loud that my utter inability to raise one eyebrow was my greatest disappointment in life, and, well, I guess I’m in good shape if that’s the case.
Replying to @DLaurence401
I would love to see video evidence of that! I try and I try.
Replying to @MaxCMarmor
True. So true.
RT @jenguiliano: there are only 2 days left until the submission window closes for #ach2021. Make sure you get your submissions in before 1…
Replying to @tcarmody
NO. And it makes me crazy. Extensive research indicates to me that ear wiggling and single eyebrow raising are linked, and I cannot do either.
Replying to @tcarmody
Replying to @S_Insley_H
You and Rihanna. You’re in good company.
Replying to @tcarmody
I will keep practicing.