Miriam Posner

Tag: Writing

  • Flesh made light: investigating X-ray films

    I’m flying back from a trip to the George Eastman House (in Rochester, New York), where I did a couple days of archival research. I thought I’d write a bit about what I was doing there and what I found, in the hope that capturing the experience here will help me organize my thoughts about…

  • Dissertation advice

    Recently, a much-loved friend asked me for advice on dissertation-writing, not because I’m any paragon of efficiency, but because she knew I’d struggled myself. She wanted to know if I had any words of wisdom about getting through the process with a minimum of pain. My immediate impulse was to decline to answer, on the…

  • An eventful few months

    In the words of Jim Anchower, it’s been a long time since I’ve rapped at ya. I’ve had a busy few months, and while I’ve mentally composed a bunch of blog posts, I haven’t actually managed to get them on the page. Some of what I’ve been up to:

  • The iPad in academic settings: what I like, what I’d like to see

    One of the developers here at the library asked me to tell him a little bit about my experience using the iPad in an academic setting. Here are his questions: Where do you find your self using the device the most? What do you really enjoy/hate about the device? Is there anything that you think…