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My name is Miriam Posner, and I'm the Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Emory University Libraries. You can read more about me here.Archives
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- Holy HELL, did I pick the wrong year to leave Yale's Film Studies program. (Name on right = James Franco) http://post.ly/wjzR 12 hours ago
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- Thanks, everyone! Worst part of defense: awkward hugs afterward. 1 day ago
- In Denver, on my way from NYC to ATL. You know it's bad when the ticketing agent laughs at you. 1 day ago
- Dissertation: defended! 2 days ago
Category Archives: Academic Life
So, you’re moving to New Haven: what to do
(This is Part II in a series of posts about living in New Haven. Look for more, unless I get tired of doing them.) I first moved to New Haven from the Bay Area, and well do I remember driving … Continue reading
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How to ask questions at academic presentations without being a jerk
OK, let me just start by saying that I have been That Guy (in a gender-neutral sense) many, many times. You know what I mean? The one who asks a question that makes you surreptitiously elbow the person next to … Continue reading
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So, you’re moving to New Haven: where to live
Andy and I are in the middle of orchestrating our big move to Atlanta, and all the excitement is reminding me of when Andy and I first moved out to New Haven. It was kind of hard to get a … Continue reading
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Yale’s Film Studies “canon”
Yale’s Film Studies program is old-school in certain ways, and one of those ways is that we have an exam at the end of our Ph.D. program to test our knowledge of various essential films and film scholarship. We students … Continue reading
A conference on exhibition at Yale
I guess it must be conference season. We grad students in Film Studies are getting ready for our graduate conference on exhibition on January 28 and 29. Here‘s the website I designed. It has to be static, since on the … Continue reading
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A new summer job and assorted busy-ness
Things have been pretty busy for me lately! Andy and I made our big move from Providence to New Haven (note to self: I am now too old to not hire movers), my laptop died at about the same time, … Continue reading
Academic travel survival guide
Over the years, I’ve done a lot of traveling for school. I’ve hit the road for conferences and to do research, and I’ve gone to Chicago, Cleveland, D.C., Boston, New York, Dallas, and Philadelphia. No matter where I go, there’s … Continue reading
A dustyard of graves
I’ve been reading Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence, which is a truly bad-humored memoir about procrastination and D.H. Lawrence and depression and some other things. There seems to be something awesome on every page. I … Continue reading
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The best-laid plans …
I’ve been working hard to get the second chapter of my dissertation finished before the end of the month. I wouldn’t say I’m panicking, exactly, but I’m definitely feeling a heightened sense of urgency. It’s been funny to watch all … Continue reading
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New York Times contributor: End the university as we know it
Mark Taylor, the chairman of Columbia’s religion department, has published a New York Times opinion piece that’s sure to cause a splash. “End the University as We Know It” argues that the university’s current incarnation is obsolete and irrelevant. Taylor … Continue reading
Spring rejection season
It’s springtime! Which is great, except it’s also the season of rejections: fellowships, jobs, postdocs, conference presentations. You don’t hear about other people’s rejections, but they’re as much a part of academic life as coffee and procrastination. For all of … Continue reading