Good Luck!
Job Application Season has begun. I’ve sent off three so far (early deadlines) and have two more to do over the weekend. So a toast to all of us: May there be jobs that we want, with colleagues that we...
View ArticleDiscovery (writ small)
I was reminded a couple of weeks ago of the thrill of discovery, or perhaps “discovery.” I’m working with the Five College Medieval Manuscript Digitization Project (website), and was doing some basic...
View ArticleNew Year, New Projects (Part I)
Despite a lot of continuing projects (finding a job, revising the dissertation, keeping the yarn away from my cat), somewhere between the beginning of the Western calendar year and the impending start...
View ArticleNew Year, New Projects (Part II)
Another new project takes me a little away from my usual literary and textual stomping grounds: to the late 17th century in Italy, and an odd little manuscript titled “Istoria della fine del mondo,...
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New Year, Completed Project- making Roman-style wax tablets
This project was technically not a 2014 one, but it came after the fall semester ended, so it felt like a not-last-year kind of activity. Over the years I’ve done a lot of different book projects,...
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Dns .I. de Marignac, Or, Meotodes meahte
A research project has snuck up on me, as they often do, from where it was lurking in another project. While working at the Smith College Mortimer Rare Books Room, in my character as measurer of...
View ArticleFaculty Money
Just a month into my faculty contract and I’m already taking full advantage! I just got awarded a Flex Grant for Teaching and Faculty Development by the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development and...
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Those Scots
A lovely footnote from a current research project. I was looking up genealogical records for the Birnie family of Broomhill, to try and figure out the provenance of Smith College Mortimer Rare Book...
View ArticleDigital Fragmentology and the Five Colleges
I’ve mentioned before my work with the Five College Medieval Manuscript Digitization Project. It continues to be exciting (borrowed a librarian’s compact purse mirror the other day to work on...
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Paper slurry, scissors, and octopusses
One of the things I’ve done during this lovely spring break is look at some watermarks on the medieval manuscripts at Amherst College. Watermarks are fun- the kind of picky challenge that sometimes...
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