Author Archives: jbj

The interoffice mail has brought word from the provost’s office that I’ve been recommended for tenure, which will officially be conferred in May by the Board of Trustees.  Longtime readers will remember that I was promoted last year, but denied … Continue reading →

From the looks of this subject line, today’s spam-bots don’t think the average internet user is smart enough to . . . read spam: A new approach for spam: Boost your vocabulary *and* your penis size!

The blog went quiet for a week because I took three of our Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day senior prize winners to the 22nd National Conference for Undergraduate Research, at Salisbury U in Maryland.  There were some technical difficulties–spotty … Continue reading →

Our boy started playing in the local U-6 soccer league last fall, which has been fun for all of us.  He plays, and we have both held coaching and administrative roles with the league.  In the fall, I coached, and … Continue reading →

If you turn to the last page of the April issue of Wired, you’ll see that New Britain will not always be a relatively poor, school-challenged city. No! This month’s “Artifacts from the Future,” by Paul Davidson, shows a future … Continue reading →

Apparently my (Connecticut-based) MacBook’s dictionary doesn’t recognize Rhode Island as a state: My students have always explained that RI stands in approximately the same relation to CT as West Virginia does to Virginia, or Alabama to Georgia — I guess … Continue reading →

My PsychoSlut column this month is about HBO’s recent show, In Treatment: About a decade ago, when starting as a graduate student in Emory’s Psychoanalytic Studies Program, I had a fierce, public argument with a good friend, Eddie Gamarra, about … Continue reading →

This morning I’m giving a presentation at the local Academic Computing Conference entitled “From Twitter to Wikis: Why Your Students Should Care about the New Web Tools.” There are basically 3 parts to the presentation: First, I argue that too … Continue reading →

David Glenn poses the above question over at the Chronicle‘s Footnoted blog. The closest I can come to answering is the story below, which I can justify because SUNY Press brought out a translation of Being and Time shortly after … Continue reading →

I can’t really promise that. (I mean, Miriam can probably do it, but not mere mortals.) But this is the exercise we did in my Digital Literary Studies class tonight: Find e-texts of two Victorian novels (we used Hard Times … Continue reading →