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Do you hate writing your author bio?

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Aimée Morrison, writing at Hook & Eye, raises an interesting point about writing academic bios: One thing that’s increasingly becoming clear to me is that the bios that accompany Serious Scholarly Writing, like a peer-reviewed article, don’t mention teaching. Better more words devoted to where you’ve published and who funded your work, than to describe […]

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What is “research”?

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

In early 2012, Rohan Maitzen published a few very thoughtful posts about: what counts as research the apparent conflict between research and teaching and related issues. One of these, “When is Reading Research?“, really highlights some of the underlying issues. “When we talk about “doing research,” I think we conventionally mean reading in service of a […]

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Are you treating your research like a hobby?

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Jo VanEvery 3 Comments

Most academics are paid to do research. Research is part of your job description. Research figures prominently in the criteria for hiring, tenure/confirmation, and promotion. This can feel out of sync with the reality of your daily life in the university. You teach. You attend meetings. You do the work necessary to do those 2 […]

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Open Access & Knowledge Mobilization

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

I fear that for some in the academic community, Open Access publishing is acting as a crutch, albeit one they don’t have yet. Open Access publishing is a good thing. We should have more of it. There are lots of reasons for this, all of which are well known. But … How many of you […]

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How scholarship is evaluated

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Jo VanEvery 11 Comments

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · How scholarship is evaluated The quality and impact/significance of your research is usually evaluated based on where you publish. The advent of new outlets for your scholarly work has raised some interesting issues about how this is done. A  blog exchange about Melville scholarship (read the comments, and also […]

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What happened to the Life of the Mind?

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Jo VanEvery 4 Comments

For many people what’s attractive about an academic career is the opportunity to be intellectually engaged: with students, with books, with colleagues, etc. Popular cultural representations of academia twist this into an image of the professor with his mind on higher things and detached from reality. Either way what gets called “the life of the mind” […]

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