Matthew Boedy reflects on how we might respond to overnaming in academic life. Read more…
A Response to Overnaming
After the fall, how then do we live? How then do we name?Read more…
Overnaming as The Fall
In this post I want to dive deeper into the original ‘scene of the crime’ for clues toward the character of the relationship between language and naming.Read more…
An Introduction to Naming
David [Dark] exposes that we assume names or labels can ‘take care’ of others. Names or labels can ‘solve’ mysteries, neutralize critics, and of course get us somewhere we want to go faster, hence the shortcut.Read more…
Campus Carry, Civic Conversations, and Public Intellectuals
It is my expert opinion as a Christian who has lived through three mostly disastrous decades of Christian engagement with politics that we do not best convert people through political issues when we seek to pronounce the Christian position on it, when we use politics as medium for the gospel. Second, it is my opinion as an emerging scholar in rhetoric that my field speaks to all people and also has deep ties to Christianity. And as a “public scholar” I note those two facts while urging a collective, democratic approach to issues at hand.Read more…
The Job Search, Post 5: Moving Into God’s Will
So you have it all done–salary, contract, even your office location. You might even have your teaching schedule lined up. What do you do now?Read more…
The Job Search, Post 4: Decision
You’ve sent hundreds of applications, done the phone interviews, and gone on the campus visits. Now you have to decide. Read more…
The Job Search, Part 3: The Campus Visit
What makes for a great campus visit? How does it fit into the will of God? Read more…
The Job Search, Part 2: The Interview Process
You have written a good letter—so good in fact that now you have some interviews scheduled. These could range from a phone call to some form of video conference. As you will learn, this means you are now in a group of roughly 15-20 people, down from the mammoth pool of 100-200 who applied. You may never have thought that Anonymous U or Nowhere U would call for an interview. And yet, here you are. Read more…
The Job Search, Part 1: The Application
Since September and October in many ways start the job year (with the first MLA list for humanities people and the posts on different job wikis), if you’re on the market and are not already applying, you will soon. Here are some thoughts about “the will of God” and that stage.Read more…
Review: Mapping Your Academic Career, by Dr. Gary Burge
Based on the reviews on the back cover, this book is already striking chords with many faculty at all stages of their career. It also should be required reading for those in professional development programs, administrators, and organizations like Emerging Scholars that work with faculty. Dr. Burge highlights a lacuna in faculty development and gives some frame for those stakeholders to engage faculty in their midst.Read more…