http://earmarks.org A weblog on early modern culture, teaching English literature, and what else comes to mind Sun, 18 May 2008 20:50:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry for the long silence. No excuse for it either, except a prolonged end-of-semester accumulation of jobs that needed to be done. I just finished grading the final pile of essays for the year, only a last week of catch-up seminars and question hours to go,and then a week of ... http://earmarks.org/archives/2008/05/18/207 In the latest issue of the TLS, Raymond Tallis, an emeritus professor of geriatric medicine, takes to task the use of neuroscience as a new perspective in literary studies. In "The Neuroscience Delusion" Tallis warns against the tendency to use works of popular science as a basis for interdisciplinarity: in ... http://earmarks.org/archives/2008/04/11/203 This comment on Serendipities in the user notes at del.icio.us just made my day:  Geek is chic, after all. http://earmarks.org/archives/2008/04/07/202 After my paper on masculinity and anger in early modern revenge tragedies at the ESSHC conference in Lissabon, I was invited to what promises to be an exciting workshop on the cultural history of the emotions in the early modern period in Umeå, Sweden this October. The call for papers ... http://earmarks.org/archives/2008/04/07/201 My system of keeping track of interesting sites is quite muddled. I use old-fashioned bookmarks in my browser; sticky notes with urls can be found lingering in the corners of my Apple Dashboard; I mail interesting links to whoever I think is interested; I stick links into WordPress posts I ... http://earmarks.org/archives/2008/04/07/198 Stuart Clark's Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Oxford University Press, 2007) had been waiting for me on my bookshelf for a while, and this week I finally got round to it. It was a great read. Vanities of the Eye is a wonderfully erudite ... http://earmarks.org/archives/2008/03/23/187 The online library catalogue at Utrecht University not only has a design homepage to go with their cool design building. It has also just integrated Library Thing into their catalogue. When you look up a book, the search results come with a set of tags from Library Thing users, as ... http://earmarks.org/archives/2008/03/21/190 This is what's waiting for me on my desk: William Germano, From Dissertation to Book (Chicago University Press, 2005) William Germano, Getting It Published (Chicago University Press, 2001) Beth Luey, Handbook for Academic Authors (fourth edition, Cambridge UP, 2002) Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato, Thinking Like Your Editor (W. W. Norton, 2002) William Zinsser, On ... http://earmarks.org/archives/2008/03/16/185 I just came across a great website on early modern culture -- Appositions: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture. It just hosted the 'first-ever, fully electronic conference in the field of Renaissance and early modern literary and cultural studies.' As far as I understand, this electronic ... http://earmarks.org/archives/2008/03/03/184 I am at the European Social Science History Conference in Lisbon this week. You may wonder what a scholar of English literature/cultural historian is doing at a social science history conference, but there is an extensive culture network within the ESSHC. In that network Willemijn Ruberg of the University of ... http://earmarks.org/archives/2008/02/28/183