fwiw, bits & pieces

16 May 2022

Dear Everyone:

Here we are, the last week of spring semester, and here I am, writing my final “dear everyone” Monday email! First and always, thank you for the generous ways you’ve received and […]

9 May 2022

Dear Everyone:

I so enjoyed being with so many of you on Friday, both for the program meeting (for current faculty and students earlier in the day) and the open awards and prizes celebration […]

2 May 2022

Dear Everyone:

Undoubtedly because the year is coming to a close, there is a profusion of events to report, so I’m devoting this week’s message toward those instrumental ends. I suspect there […]

25 April 2022

Dear Everyone:Just a few weeks left of spring term! I know it can be difficult to regain momentum after spring break, and/but hope you were able to step away for a bit, to recoup what ener […]

11 April 2022

Dear Everyone:

Not an iota of surprise that last Friday’s Forum, featuring remarks by the marvelous Wayne Koestenbaum and Cindi Katz, in conversation with the also marvelous Eric Dean Wilson […]

4 April 2022

Dear Everyone:

Here we are in April! A month introduced by the cherishing of fools! I gave a lecture last week on the subject of Asian Americanist pedagogy, and in the Q&A, was asked why I was […]

28 March 2022

Dear Everyone:

By my count, we’ve just about six weeks to go of the semester, including the week of spring break — absurdly late in the term as ever. It all might feel especially something of […]

21 March 2022

Dear Everyone:

This is a message full of things to know — or at least, things I think you might find of interest or useful somehow. The last week has featured information coming down from […]

14 March 2022

Dear Everyone:

These bright, sunny days promising spring, punctuating the winter cold that seemingly won’t let go — appetite-whetting teasers! The springing-ahead-lose-an-hour is for some […]

7 March 2022

Dear Everyone:

When my older child was wee, he was allergic to peanuts. He started school and his teachers dutifully and helpfully circulated to his classmates’ parents a request that things […]

28 February 2022

Dear Everyone:

I want to say something to you all about the invasion of Ukraine currently underway, to acknowledge the sorrow and fury that is immediate to the assault on the people there, […]

22 Feb 2022

Dear Everyone:   Today’s abundance of 2s is supposed to be a day of harmony and balance, according to seemingly every piece of news coming across all the different platforms! Extra special for […]

14 February 2022

Dear Everyone:

Today is a day to celebrate Frederick Douglass! He was born in 1818 and chose later in his life to celebrate his birthday on 14 February. I can’t remember when I learned t […]

7 February 2022

Dear Everyone:

This past Friday, William Orchard spoke of spirals and stuckness in the course of his lecture, in ways that invited us (or at least me) to consider the grounds and conditions […]

31 January 2022

Dear Everyone:

Happy Lunar New Year’s Eve! We’re about to enter the year of the tiger — associated with strength and courage, and oh, that we would need less of either in the year […]

24 Jan 2022

Dear Everyone:  

Here we are, on the eve of a new semester! I’m laugh-crying with you all about the state of things and wishing so much I was writing in pure celebration of a bright, fresh […]

6 December 2021

Dear Everyone:

The program zoom rooms were abuzz on Friday! With Faculty Membership, Executive, and Curriculum Committees meeting, the end of term open program meeting later in the […]

29 November 2021

Dear Everyone:   I hope this long weekend just past was sufficiently restorative so as to energize you through these final weeks of the term. I admit I sometimes (oftentimes, even) find the […]

22 November 2021

Dear Everyone:

Of course it isn’t the case that it’s only on the holiday designated for giving thanks that we offer gratitude for the lives we lead, nor should it be the case that on thi […]

15 November 2021

Dear Everyone:

Big thanks to everyone who joined us on Friday for the final seminar related to our search for a consortial appointment in US Latinx studies, with particular appreciation to […]