Even as publishers scramble to come up with digital course materials and online extras, many students still prefer the comfort of print. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
Journalism
“The ‘Alt-Ac’ Track: Careers Without Tenure”
Not having a tenure-track job can be a good thing, as some alt-ac folks explained at the MLA's annual meeting. Read More at The Chroncle of Higher Education »
“MLA Sessions Keep the Focus on Adjuncts”
At the Modern Language Association's annual meeting, held this year in Boston, instructors working off the tenure track were no longer the silent majority. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Missing Ears” (on “Stylish Academic Writing” by Helen Sword)
A review of Helen Sword's Stylish Academic Writing. Read More at TLS »
“Secret Lives of Readers”
Books reveal themselves. Whether they exist as print or pixels, they can be read and examined and made to spill their secrets. Readers are far more elusive. They leave traces--a note in the margin, a stain on the binding--but those hints of human handling tell us only so much. The experience of reading vanishes with the reader.But it's not necessarily gone for good. Projects like the Reading Experience Database, based at the Open University in the U.K., and scholars like Leah Price, a professor of English at Harvard University, have set out to recover what people did with their books." Read More at The Chronicle Review »
