Musicologist, Scholar of Popular Culture, Banjoist, Singer, Geek
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I am reminded how sad it is that the move to the dominance of digital distribution often means we no longer tend to get liner notes. A moment when the artist gets to make an artist statement linked to the work.
Um.
I was booking plane tickets and I have discovered that some airlines now charge for a person to have a carry-on bag. What the nickel and diming is that?!
I've been thinking about academic sub-fields. They aren't the work, they are the clique of people who build and maintain the organizational gates. You can write on Opera, but not be recognized as an opera scholar. You can write on pop music but not be included in that community.
I'm not mad. Because it is what it is. But it does explain the disconnect. Someone once said, "Why would you distance yourself from Organization A, they do so much for their members! You'd lose out on so many opportunities." But Org A has never actually included me.
Everyone is worried about students using ChatGPT to write papers: "How will we ever know?" they say. "What shall we do?" they fret. Well, I've caught 2-3 ChatGPT papers so far, and I caught them because ChatGPT is really bad at writing academic papers. It makes up fake things.
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Christina Sharpe was among a handful of folks who offered me kindness in my early days at Tufts, and helped me work through some of the white fuckery I encountered in those years. I was so glad to read this profile and can’t wait to read Ordinary Notes
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Last semester, a student turned in one of the worst final papers I've seen in a really long time. And when I say it was bad, I mean, it earned an F. And that is hard to do. I ran it through turnitin and it wasn't plagiarized. Now I'm thinking...it might have been ChatGPT?
People keep asking me: “Are you going to the Mega Conference in New Orleans this year?” The answer is “Absolutely not.” Why wound I go to a super spreader event when we are still in a pandemic? Especially since so many have seemed to decide COVID is over. No thanks.
But that does mean I won’t be going to conferences any more. Online conferences have none of the things I go to conferences for and I don’t enjoy them. So. It may well be that my last academic conference was a few years ago.
Here is the thing about situating yourself in your work. I will see people say, "I am a cis/trans/etc white/POC/etc heterosexual/asexual/queer/etc woman/man/genderqueer/etc" somewhere near the top of their paper. But I don't see a lot of people understanding what that is for.
They say, "Hurt people hurt people." And I certainly see this in some academic writing. Where the hurt people craft scholarship that either is a form of self-flagellation and self-traumatization (hurting oneself), or is hurting others through unprocessed biases.