March 6, 2024Rutgers SC&I invited me to give a talk about what the process of composing my dissertation was like, to show…
January 26, 2024I didn't use scripted remarks for this roundtable talk, but below are some of the questions that were asked, and…- May 3, 2022Ten years after starting my Ph.D. program, six years after I started thinking, reading, and writing, I've finished my dissertation.…
June 26, 2018Does it make me "old school" if I still prefer writing out my citations by hand? Citation engines weren't available…
May 14, 2018After four years of teaching as a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information (SC&I), as I…
August 22, 2016How to work when the pain is so great it slows even time? Indefatigable voice curling around and in on…
August 21, 2016Because it's called "research," I constantly feel the oppressive shadow of the Ivory Tower: Western, masculine, rational and orderly, demanding…
August 3, 2016I've wanted to say for weeks now that there was a day, while teaching, that I lost my legs, and…
January 28, 2016For a half-hour, my left hand, the one with the magnet implant in it, becomes the hand that commands the…
October 4, 2014A while back an ex-acquaintance of mine joked that my way of being with chronic pain is like being an…