Three Core Shifts That Will Change Your Writing Attitude
When you’re pulled in a thousand directions, it’s your writing that suffers. With so many urgent tasks sucking away your time (and energy), the week goes by and you feel like you didn’t get anything done. There are many obstacles to writing more: teaching, meetings,...
How to be “Serially” Successful in Academia
I read an excellent article in Inside Higher Ed about a panel at the Association of American Colleges and Universities discussing changes that university administrators were implementing in order to reduce faculty workload. The idea (which is a very good one) is to...
How to Make 2018 the Year You Write and Publish More
Ah, the new year. It’s like a blank canvas waiting for you to fill with your hopes and dreams. In the new year, anything is possible. We start fitness programs. We eat healthy. We set goals. I want you to set aside some of your new-year-induced optimism to invest in...
How I Published the Semester I Came Back from Maternity Leave
During academic year 2015-2016, I had the longest and most amazing maternity leave with my third (and last!) baby. When I came back to work in Fall 2017, my two edited volumes and an article in Anthropology and Education Quarterly were published. Now, because my...
Should I Write Over Break?
OK, here’s the short answer: no. Now for the long answer. If you’re like me, you have amazingly good intentions to do all kinds of things that end up being pushed aside until classes are over or you have some sort of other formal “break.” These things often include...
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