Miriam Posner

Category: Academic Life

  • So, you’re moving to New Haven: Do you need a car? (Answer: No.)

    (This is my third post about moving to New Haven. I’ve also written about where to live and what to do. I wish you the very best of luck on your move, but I regret that I don’t have time to answer individual questions about your situation.) If there’s one thing that everyone knows about…

  • Thoughts on the Scholarly Communication Institute

    Last week I was really fortunate to attend the Scholarly Communication Institute 9 at the University of Virginia. This was the final in an annual series of meetings designed to provoke discussion (and action) about the way scholarship is produced, consumed, and disseminated. The roster of attendees was impressive, and I was decidedly junior. Consequently,…

  • Yale’s film studies “canon”: the readings

    Long, long ago, I posted the the filmography from the “canon” exam that Yale’s Film Studies Ph.D. program administers to all of its graduating students. I promised to post the readings, too, and then promptly forgot. Anyway, here they are, in case you’re interested in some light reading. Apologies for the formatting errors; I didn’t…

  • Making room in the academy for everyone: Margaret Price on kairotic space

    Last week, I went to see the rhetorician and disability studies scholar Margaret Price lead a discussion about her new book, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Disability and Academic Life. I was curious for a lot of reasons. Mostly, I’ve been interested in disability studies lately, for the simple reason that I keep learning stuff…

  • Opposite sides of the cafetorium: notes from a THATCamp Southeast session on librarian-scholar collaboration

    I attended a session at THATCamp Southeast (which Shawn Averkamp proposed) on ways to promote collaboration between librarians and scholars (a subject close to my heart). We took notes together using a collaborative Google doc, and here’s my attempt to summarize. “We get paid to be interrupted!” The academics in the room started out by…

  • So, you’re moving to New Haven: what to do

    Surprisingly, this is one of the most popular posts I’ve ever written. I wish you the very best of luck on your move, but I regret that I don’t have time to answer individual questions about your situation. (This is Part II in a series of posts about living in New Haven. Look for more,…

  • 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 you or doodle “WTF?” on your notepad. It’s hard! There are so many ways to…

  • So, you’re moving to New Haven: where to live

    Surprisingly, this is one of the most popular posts I’ve ever written. I wish you the very best of luck on your move, but I regret that I don’t have time to answer individual questions about your situation. Andy and I are in the middle of orchestrating our big move to Atlanta, and all the…

  • 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 have nicknamed it the “canon exam,” although it seems as though the professors avoid calling…

  • 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 Yale main server, but I think it does the trick. I think the conference is…