Journalist – Historian – Speaker
It was a very good writing week for me. I pitched four columns, landed three, one of which came out immediately. I also wrote a first-draft treatment of a book (more on this later once it’s ready). Most fun, I did an interview and part of a call-in show with an Australian radio program! You …
♫I enjoy being a man!♫ Says the author of this piece on academic dads. http://t.co/ZLHhkltDDA — Karen Kelsky (@ProfessorIsIn) May 19, 2014 What do we, as writers, owe other writers? I’ve been thinking about this in the context of my “talking while privileged” argument. In general, when making arguments about privilege and power, I try …
Last week I was working on footnotes, so I didn’t plan any pieces. Naturally, I wrote four essays that are some of the most-read pieces in the history of the blog. In reaction to the UCSB shooting, I wrote a piece on Elliot Rodger and Intersectionality. I coined something called “The shrug,” in which either as …
The issue of trigger warnings in the classroom, whether they are useful, attack academic freedom, are to protect our helicopter-parented elite students, or what, has become a fairly important topic in higher ed circles. I’m writing an essay on it now. Here is a list of resources. Please recommend additional materials. Start with Amanda Marcotte …
Yesterday I spent the day with the Op-Ed Project, thinking more about this new craft (it’s been over a year, but it still feels very new) of public writing. It was an inspiring day and I left it even more committed to developing my public voice and, even more importantly, working to amplify the voices …
I’m back from an annual conference that medievalists hold in Kalamazoo, MI. Here’s the round-up for the week. At the conference I spoke about public engagement and why a medievalist might write for CNN about Sarah Palin. I also linked to a great blog post thinking about management vs administration in higher education. Earlier in the …
Well, it’s been quite a week. On Thursday, CNN published a piece critical of Sarah Palin. I’ve criticized public figures before, but I usually have done so in “see both sides” kinds of writing (intended to have the reader end up seeing the world my way, but careful and measured). This was not measured in …
I had two published essays this week: One for Chronicle Vitae on The Language of Labor and Adjuncts with a blog comment. One for CNN on the Canonizations of the Popes John 23 and John Paul 2 with a blog comment. I’ve been writing a lot about Higher Ed of late, in part thanks to new column opportunities at …
This was a good week. Spring is here in Chicagoland, my son is currently head-banging to the CD version of “Let it Go,” and later I’ll be cooking salmon in delicious little packets of butter, lemon, and tarragon. For lunch, thanks to secular Easter, we’ll be having egg salad. I’ve got 5 higher-ed columns out …
In case you missed it. I wrote about Jesus’ Wife, Academic Fatherhood (and some pre-panel thoughts about a roundtable on parenting in academia. I’ll have more to say on this next week, I hope), and two more pieces on gender. One was about women and men getting invited to talk on the television, the other …