Author Archives: jbj

T. E. Hulme’s Romanticism and classicism

Posted on July 5, 2007 by jbj

Longtime Salt-Box readers may have noticed that my archives haven’t yet made it over to the new WordPress version.  I’m still not quite sure what I think about that. But I do like to provide a service to the people … Continue reading →

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My iPhone: The first 48 hours

Posted on July 5, 2007 by jbj

Thanks in part to an overly generous anniversary gift, I bought an iPhone Tuesday afternoon.  The timing was a little funny: On the one hand, I wouldn’t have a ton of time to play with it on Tuesday or Wednesday … Continue reading →

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NB High on probation

Posted on July 3, 2007 by jbj

If your kid is 4, is it too early to worry about the fact that the local high school flunked it’s NEASC accreditation visit?  The only real reporting on this story has come from NBBlogs.  Today Patrick Thibodeau had the … Continue reading →

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The Dangerous Book for Boys

Posted on July 3, 2007 by jbj

Popmatters has posted my review of Conn and Hal Iggulden’s The Dangerous Book for Boys. Key grafs: I will say this: My four-year-old thinks The Dangerous Book for Boys is the greatest book I’ve ever been assigned to review. It’s … Continue reading →

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Klaver’s _The Apostle of the Flesh: A Critical Life of Charles Kingsley

Posted on July 2, 2007 by jbj

The new Victorian Studies (Winter 2007), and included in it is my review of J. M. I. Klaver’s The Apostle of the Flesh: A Critical Life of Charles Kingsley (Brill, 2006).  Here’s the first graf: In 1872, Vanity Fair remarked … Continue reading →

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A four-year-old’s photos of iPhone mania

Posted on June 29, 2007 by jbj

My four-year-old has listened with mild disbelief for a couple of weeks now whenever I’ve mentioned that people would be lining up outside the local Apple store to buy phones.  He’s seen the phones (or, at least the videos and … Continue reading →

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Summer’s finally here

Posted on June 28, 2007 by jbj

My two summer classes end today!  July and August will be the first two months I’ve gone without teaching since 2003.  I scarcely know what to do . . . (Well, Alton Locke is due to Broadview in August, and … Continue reading →

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What’s an assignment for?

Posted on June 25, 2007 by jbj

This year I’ve been experimenting with a variety of digital replacements for my conventional “3 explication papers + one short paper + one medium-length paper” assignment set; for the purposes of this experiment, I’m not requiring formal papers at all.  … Continue reading →

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Assessment & Accountability

Posted on June 22, 2007 by jbj

Over at Academic Commons, my first post is up: It’s about the so-called Voluntary System of Accountability being promulgated by the American Association of State Colleges & Universities (AASCU) and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges … Continue reading →

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New Bookslut post

Posted on June 21, 2007 by jbj

My weekly post at Blog of a Bookslut is up. Topics include the new book of Guantanamo Bay detainee poems, a new edition of Blake’s illustrations of “Comus,” the “Immanent Willy,” and more.

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