2024 Foerster Prize Winner Announced We’re pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Norman Foerster Prize, awarded to the best essay of the year in American Literature: “‘A Face of Anguish’: Pain and Portraiture in the Civil War Hos…

Sharing a nice surprise in strange times - I got an honorable mention for an article I wrote for a special issue on citizenship last year! (And if you read it, you'll see a part of why I'm trying to take a sabbatical from socials)

Just gave out an F to a paper with fully invented citations. It briefly gave me one of those "am I going crazy?" moments, followed by bemusement/annoyance at the fact that this student tried it with someone whose only professional skill is close reading texts