As a PhD candidate and humanities teacher, I've been thinking about a variety of ways to extend my work beyond academic journals or the classroom lately, and all roads seem to lead to the mighty blog. I'm not sure that blogging/social networking is the perfect solution to the problem of the notion that academia is in some way completely inaccessible and academics are out-of-touch with reality. However, just because it isn't the perfect solution, doesn't mean that it's not worth a try. (This also, of course, assumes that someone out there will read this!)
My intention for this space is to both post some short reflections on various oddities of American culture, which I'll be kicking off with an entry on Cakewrecks. I will also be using this space as a forum for a sort of scholarly outreach, posting book reviews of young adult Holocaust literature that are connected to the themes of my dissertation on tolerance and the use of fiction to create memories for young adult readers.
