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I finished my conference presentation on Saturday. There weren't a lot of people in the audience, but what they lacked in numbers they m...

Today marked the first day back to classes after spring break. Over the break I graded a couple (or three? I forget) sets of assignments, di...

Well, besides commenting on and grading student papers, I've tried to fit in some time for working on some projects. The urgent keeps ge...

I finished reading Formosa: Licensed Revolution and the Home Rule Movement last night. I took a few notes on it as well in the process. He ...

I've gotten started on the work to prepare for my trip to the archives this summer. I'm currently reading through GHK's Formosa:...

Although not everyone from our writing group was able to make it to our first meeting, we had three people there (plus one interested non-me...

It may look pretty to some people, but I'm really tired of seeing this stuff.

I've been going through some continued confusion and ennui related to my research and writing, my *cough* "scholarly" life,  t...

We're trying to get the writing group going again, though it will be with fewer people. We'll see how the meetings go. We're sup...

Thought I'd post my grant proposal for the summer trip to Taiwan. Here's a link to it (on my Academia.edu page).

Well, that's depressing. A couple of members of our writing group are bowing out because we weren't able to line up our schedules en...

So I'm sort of signed up with a faculty writing group. I wasn't able to attend the meeting at which the group's plans were discu...

Back in July I wrote something about trying to start up this blog again, but since then it doesn't seem like I've written very much...

I just noticed that my first blog posts for October of 2005 , 2007 , and 2009 are all about typhoons. Don't take my word for it--check ...

Gonna be needing this soon... What to Expect the First Year , 3rd. ed. (2014), by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel There are some mixed revi...

Chen, Fangyu (陳芳毓). "Without Memorizing Model Essays or Sentences, Students are Taught to Write their own Stories" (不背範文佳句，教孩子寫出自己...

Thursday marked the end for students to be able to add classes. As I thought would happen, the populations of my three classes changed a few...

I see that ten years ago around this time (the beginning of the semester), I was planning a Research Methods course for sophomore English m...

We had a short week this week because classes started on Wednesday, but at least I got a chance to meet (most of) my students. During this w...

Next Wednesday (9/3) will be the first day of classes, and marks the beginning of my fourth year teaching at Northeastern University. Time f...