Historians: The level of historical literacy is appalling. I’m going to publish a general readership book.

The Book: “Blood On Your Hands: How Everything Has Always Been F*cked And You Specifically Are Making It Worse”

#publishing #altacademia #history

Hey #academic #blogging folks, is there an easier to use alternative to WordPress for an academic blog/website?

(I haven’t blogged since the days of Xanga.)

#blog #AltAcademia #histodons #archaeodons

Well this is the most dystopian shit to ever grace my inbox.

#Anthropology #ai #capitalism #marketing #AltAcademia

Two weeks at the new job (first post-PhD #altacademia), and there are lots of thoughts. Can’t put them all on here, but perhaps a few:

- This isn’t anything new. I’ve been on LinkedIn for awhile, but wow what a different world of very curated content, strange takes, and uncritical “expert” opinions on everything. Of course good networking and some good advice too if you do it right.

- If you look around, you’d be surprised how much relevant expertise you can find in your PhD. It’s been a bit of a journey learning how to advocate for myself instead of letting imposter syndrome rule.

- So far my experience, and the experience of others I’ve talked to that left academics, is that there’s something really nice about being on a broad team, with people of widely varying domains of expertise, all working toward a practical goal. Sure depending on the academic group, support and motives can vary (I think I was on the better side of things), but it’s no secret that there’s something that feels oppressive, anxiety-inducing, and lonely about the structure.

It’s hard to pin down what it is, but it seems like a combination of, among other things, structured mentorship, roles, boundaries, and some amount of more successful gamification (incentives structure, more attainable goals, more regular feedback).

As for an #introduction:

I am the Director of Scholarly Communication at the University of North Texas Libraries, with particular interests in open scholarship, library publishing, values-enacted scholarly metrics, alternate peer review models, digital scholarship, and scholarly communication education. #scholcom #libraries

I hold a PhD in American literature from Northwestern University and an MLS from the University of North Texas. My scholarly interests include horror fiction and film, American poetry, comics studies, and literary pedagogy. #horror #comicsstudies

I am the Book Review Editor for the Edgar Allan Poe Review, Co-Editor of Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, and a board member of the Digital Cultural Studies Cooperative (https://dcsco-op.org/). #altacademia

I've moved to hcommons.social, so I'm reposting my #introduction:

I'm a historian of #earlymodernengland, working on #gender #HistoryofFamily, #histmed. I've published on the history of #infertility and I'm now working on a book on #sisters

I'm in #AltAcademia - the program manager for the #DanDavidPrize, currently the biggest prize in the world for #histodons and scholars of the past.

I'm also a #PhDMom of an only child, a #geek, #Dnd player and a knitter and cross-stitcher.

Here’s info about my project ‘a philosopHER walks’ https://aphilosopherwalks.wordpress.com/

#philosophy #philosophers #walking #hiking #pedestriansrights #pedestrian #PedestriansFirst #womenwalking #womenhiking #feminism #flâneur #flâneuse #alt-academia #AltAcademia