home cooked theory

Published!

The opinion piece referred to previously is in the Higher Ed section of The Australian today. The print version has a very cute cartoon alongside with a sandstone tower and a book as the draw bridge. The young girl struggling to cross the moat bears an uncanny resemblance to my grad school self. I’m [...]

Progress

Thanks to everyone who sent messages of support in response to the rejections. What a weird week. After going public with all the feedback, a friend suggested I should write an opinion piece about it for the Higher Ed. I’ve sent it off and I think it might be getting published — although of course [...]

The tenor of rejection

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From the proposal you sent, this looks like a thorough and thoughtful study of a phenomenon that is quietly changing the lives of many of us. That said, I’m afraid that we are unlikely to be able to sell your book in sufficient quantities for publication to be commercially viable… The book would indeed be [...]

Design help

The State of the Industry conference needs a poster to advertise itself. We can guarantee exposure!
If you or anyone you know might be willing to offer an idea, please get in touch. So far the organising committee has been thinking a hallway image would be good. I think this could help symbolise how the themes [...]

Writing elsewhere

Today I added another page to this blog with a running list of publications. Until recently I’d been able to keep this fairly current on my work page, but I don’t have access to my own profile page in my new job (!). In fact, the whole faculty is relaunching its website at the moment, [...]

Addendum: obsolescence

Is it possible to describe the “Cultural studies and obsolescence” thread as heartening and heartbreaking? Well, I just wanted to thank those of you who shared your experiences for breaking the silence and politesse that surrounds these issues (and Michael, that’s why no one talks about the quality of conferences. It goes against good [...]