by Jenae Cohn | Jul 1, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
The greatest treat in the world for me is getting up and working in my pajamas. To roll straight from bed to computer and dig into a project is a fantastic luxury for me and it is one of the prevailing parts of an academic (and I suppose freelance) lifestyle that...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 18, 2014 | Digital Literacy, Pedagogy, Personal
When I take notes on books I’m reading, I’ve got comments and sub-comments. The comments are of the most mundane variety: I flag down quotes, make note of important moments, and process through key concepts. The typical stuff. The sub-comments, however,...
by Jenae Cohn | Dec 16, 2013 | Literature, Pedagogy, Personal
I’m a little self-conscious about the title of this post, mostly because I don’t intend to talk Ezra Pound or Modernism here and in fact, I find both the poet and the movement a little tiresome. This is for a number of reasons, primary of which is the...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 18, 2013 | Literature, Personal
I’m having trouble turning off noise today. It’s all kinds of noise: cell phone noise, social media noise, inside brain noise. There’s something poetic about being consumed in this “white noise” considering I am in the postmodern phase of my prelim reading. I think my...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 9, 2013 | Literature, Personal, Professionalization
I’ve been sent to an administrator’s office. The hallway is long, sterile, inevitably linoleum. I’m ushered into a room with taupe walls and stock art. A secretary barely notices me. Then, it’s time to talk to the Man in Charge. “There’s been something of… a mix-up in...