Dear friends and colleagues: If you haven't yet had a chance to go outside and take a quiet, purposeless walk yet this month, now might be a good time. This e-mail can wait. For the rest of you, a few opportunities in the coming weeks that are important to our work as...

Dear Colleagues, For those of you who have a Winter Break, I hope next week holds the promise of a few good books and lying on the floor with pets/children/aforementioned good books. For those of us without breaks, I think we're justified in having an extra cup of...

Dear Colleagues, I hope this bright and sunny Monday morning finds all of you well and refreshed and that you didn't waste your time (like some of us did) watching the stupid football team from your home state yet again lose a game they should have won. Not that I'm...

Hello, all: I hope this finds you well at the end of a restful weekend and approximately, according to my sources who have Ph.D.'s in something more practical than Victorian Literature, 18/19ths of the way through the pandemic. This is just a quick e-mail regarding...

Dear Colleagues: This will be a relatively short newsletter, containing two important opportunities: First, the last of this semester's luncheons discussing Departmental Initiatives in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will occur tomorrow, Tuesday, 16 November from...

Dear Colleagues: At the moment when I'm drafting this, the sky is a perfect blue, there's a nice breeze, the trees are turning color, and there's a student standing on the stairs outside of my window, clearly confused because she thought her class was meeting in the...