by Katie | Sep 8, 2014 | Freelance Academic, Journalism
I have some big news. My favorite higher education publication, The Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae, which is never behind a paywall (#openaccess, y’all), has picked up these blog posts as a new column for their publication. Thus: The Freelance Academic Blog...
by Katie | Jul 5, 2014 | Freelance Academic, Journalism
Suggested Reading: “What’s the Point of Academic Publishing” by Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) for Chronicle Vitae. Suggested Watching: Adjunct Action‘s Conversation with Rebecca Schuman (@pankisseskafka) (along with host Sean Michael Morris...
by Katie | Apr 26, 2014 | Journalism, Sexual Assault, Social Justice
Many of you read my previous post, in which I posted a short story published back in 2008 (by the fabulous Bayou Magazine). I didn’t say in the previous post, but I’m sure many of you intuited, that the story is based on a true event. Pretty much...
by Katie | Apr 16, 2014 | Creative Writing, Journalism, Sexual Assault
I published this piece of flash fiction in the literary magazine Bayou years ago (Issue 49 from 2008, if you are keeping count). I don’t write much short fiction or poetry any more, just keep tooling away on a couple of novels and dreaming dreams about them like...
by Katie | May 1, 2013 | Journalism
Today’s skirmish in the Oxford Comma Wars comes from the New York Times Obituary of Deanna Durbin, 1930s film star. Here’s the pertinent excerpt: After moving to France in 1949 and settling outside Paris in the village of Neauphle-le-Château, Ms. Durbin...
by Katie | Jul 1, 2011 | Journalism, Law
I’m not a fan of fancy interactive graphics when the information could be conveyed more simply, but this interactive web page summarizing the last Supreme Court term is mighty fun. Check it out. [edit 6/2017: WaPo has removed this interactive graphic from their...
