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Talia Schaffer

Professor of English, specializing in Victorian literature.

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    We are living together while we are living apart. Though trapped in separate cells, we have never been more aware of how interlaced are our lives, air, bodies, hands, breath. We are both far too alone, and not […]

    5 years, 2 months ago
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    In the spring of the coronavirus, people are yearning to help. I see this urgency as rooted in care’s identity as an action, rather than an emotion. ‘Care’ is something you do, but ‘caring’ is something you feel. […]

    5 years, 2 months ago
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    In the unimaginably long-ago time of 2015, ethicist Eva Feder Kittay imagined what a care-based society might look like. In such a world, she speculated, we would honor “those who were valiant in their care of o […]

    5 years, 2 months ago
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    For the past several years I have been working on a book about caregiving and communities in relation to Victorian fiction. So it feels like I should have a lot to offer right now, particularly as I keep seeing […]

    5 years, 2 months ago
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    Talia Schaffer commented on the post, Do you have suggestions for making readers' reports humane and helpful?

    Helpful advice about dealing with negative reader’s reports from an editor at Duke UP. Try to train yourself to see what you can use, and put away bad feeling. […]

    5 years, 9 months ago
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    Talia Schaffer commented on the post, Post useful links here

    Good reminder about considering access when cleaning up after a conference panel, by Jonathan Beecher Field: […]

    5 years, 10 months ago
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    Talia Schaffer commented on the post, Do you have suggestions for making readers' reports humane and helpful?

    Roger Maioli has given me permission to post this excellent comment:

    Yesterday a friend of mine who is a great scholar and a wonderful human being shared a painful experience she’s had with a review of her […]

    5 years, 10 months ago
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    Talia Schaffer commented on the post, Do you have suggestions for making readers' reports humane and helpful?

    One problem with reader’s reports is that reviewers tend to assume that the writer of the article is a grad student or junior person. This is reasonable, because probably 80-90% of submissions do seem to be from […]

    6 years, 1 month ago
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    Talia Schaffer commented on the post, Post useful links here

    What do people think about Patrick Fessenbecker’s proposal for shifting grad school education to an extended MA involving some vocational skills? See […]

    6 years, 1 month ago
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    Talia Schaffer commented on the post, Post useful links here

    Beautiful piece by Andrea Kaston Tange about mentoring: […]

    6 years, 1 month ago
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    Talia Schaffer commented on the post, Is it possible to make our book reviews both critical and generous? How do we balance the different readers' needs?

    Patrick Maley posted a tip for teaching on Twitter, but it is also a good technique for book reviews. Phrase praise personally, critiques abstractly:
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    @PatrickJMaley

    Hey here’s a grading technique I l […]

    6 years, 2 months ago
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    Talia Schaffer commented on the post, Post useful links here

    Great crowd-sourced list of working conditions at various libraries and archives: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Jeb1W-VZuuCSWpRd0tBragq0er57V7DAJg_D3ajwrmo/htmlview#gid=0

    6 years, 2 months ago
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    Talia Schaffer commented on the post, Is it possible to make our book reviews both critical and generous? How do we balance the different readers' needs?

    Comment from Lauren Goodlad:

    I look forward to reading what emerges on this website very much: it’s a great project. I am wondering if folks have thoughts on best practices for book reviewing. I’ve noticed a […]

    6 years, 3 months ago
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    Call for a more humane profession: Melissa Valiska Gregory, “VLC: Provocations,” October 23, 2018.

    Article about how grad school stress particularly affects people with disabilities. David M. Perry, “How to […]

    6 years, 5 months ago
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