One of the best nonfiction books I’ve read in the past year is Edmund de Waal’s The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (Picador, 2010). It’s a spell-binding memoir centred around de Waal’s efforts to trace the history of a collection of netsuke (small, Japanese wood and ivory carvings)…
From grad student to professor
I was flattered when one of the editors at my alma mater’s newsletter asked if I’d be willing to be featured in an alumni profile. I said yes immediately because the Master of Arts – Integrated Studies program at Athabasca University is an excellent graduate program, the praises of which…
Why’s this so good?
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard runs a handful of useful websites for journalists and journalism students. My favourite is Nieman Storyboard, which publishes two ongoing series: Notable Narratives, which features detailed interviews with journalists about the back story to a given piece of their work, and Why’s This…
Conference season
For those of us who work in higher education, the end of the winter teaching semester marks the beginning of conference season, when we have a chance to share our research with our colleagues and catch up on what they’ve been working on since we last met. Since I was…