Talking with My Friend & Colleague, Jolie Sheffer, about Mixed-Race/Hapa Identity in Writing, Marginalized Voices, Hypertext, & the Question of Likeability for the BG Ideas Podcast
My very first podcast, where I chat with my friend & colleague, Jolie Sheffer, about the role of mixed-race identity in fiction, the question of likeability in literature, and my two texts, AMNESIA OF JUNE BUGS & DUKKHA, MY LOVE for the BG Ideas Podcast at the Institute for Cultural Studies at Bowling Green
Read MoreI’m gonna be straight, having a tenure track job as a writer/academic is different than I’d imagined it being. It’s impossible to imagine how busy you’ll be, but as a baby-faced academic, I have so many meetings to go to now: department meetings, BFA curricular revision meetings, MFA program meetings, first-year faculty fellowship meetings . . .
Read MoreHere we are now, in a strange & beautiful galaxy for the first time. After negotiating my job offer for a long & grueling week (where I constantly doubted myself & worried about tenure track horror stories of rescinded offers by small religious liberal arts colleges) & then waiting a long & torturous month for my contract to finally arrive via express mail, I can now finally say that I’ve accepted an offer to be the new assistant professor of English & creative writing at Bowling Green State University, starting in August.
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