The 42nd Carnivalesque (early modern edition) is up at Early Modern Notes. It’s a great edition, with a section on ‘Writers and Readers’ that includes a link to this interesting post on modern and early modern information overload.

More on readers: Paper Cuts, the NY Times blog on books, has a review of Norton’s reissue of André Kertész’s 1971 On Reading, [...]

Riddle machines, virtual codexes and algorithmic criticism - it’s all in Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2007). I am slowly making my way through its 620 pages printed on good old-fashioned non-digital paper, to review it for The European English Messenger. 
I started, of course, with Matthew Steggle’s chapter surveying the field of early modern literature [...]

At the close of summer, I wrote a post on my plans to use a weblog in my MA course on gender theory in the first semester (see also this later post). I received a lot of very useful and encouraging comments, and took the plunge. The semester ended just before Christmas, student essays are [...]

Blow some life into this forgotten corner of the web.
Do more research next to teaching.
Write more about said research here.

I hope this is all going to work, because I have a lighter teaching load the coming semester, and lots of research projects lined up. I even blocked days in my diary using different colours for [...]

Welcome to the 32nd , an early modern edition in the guise of a commonplace book:
A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement. (OED)
As many [...]

No teaching this week, so we escaped to the very southern tip of the Netherlands for some autumn hiking. Here are some impressions of the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness in Limburg (more on flickr).

No teaching also means that there will (finally) be some more activity here, climaxing in the early modern carnivalesque [...]

Lots of nice things today: Scribblingwoman is back at Scribblingwoman2! And she has this cool snapshot function on her new blog. I just had to download the plugin too.
If it so happens that you find yourself annoyed by these things creeping out of the woodwork every time you mouse over a link, I think you [...]