Publish or Shut Up (February 7, 2008)
The Murmuring of Innumerable Bees (July 9, 2008)
CFP Blues (September 15, 2008)
Ph.D. Problems: Louis Menand (November 10, 2009)
The Impact of the Humanities (November 23, 2009)
Is Arguing for the Practical Utility of Literary Studies Ultimately Self-Defeating? (January 20, 2010)
The Case for the Humanities (January 22, 2010)
The ‘Skills’ Argument Sounds Even Worse When We’re Talking About Ph.D.s in the Humanities (January 23, 2010)
Louis Menand, The Marketplace of Ideas (March 10, 2010)
The Ph.D. Conundrum (April 18, 2011)
Reality Check: ‘The Applicant’s Publication Record is Spotty’ (June 15, 2011)
Cassuto on Blogs: ‘I have nothing against them, but I don’t read them either’ (July 4, 2011)
‘The Measure of Blogging’: More from Leonard Cassuto (September 1, 2011)
More Ph.D. Puzzlement (October 9, 2011)
Mark Bauerlein’s “The Research Bust” (December 12, 2011)
This Week at Work: Some Reflections (January 25, 2012)
“On the Duties of Professors” (January 29, 2012)
When is Reading Research? (February 5, 2012)
Reading and Research Redux: The Somerville Novelists Project (March 11, 2012)
Research That Matters: Knowledge and Novelty (March 18, 2012)



