In what will very possibly turn out to have been the high water mark of my academic career, I was a finalist this year for a tenure-track professorship in classical Persian literature at Harvard. I didn’t get the job, but it was, as you might imagine, an interesting experience. I gave my job talk on …
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Ongoing writing projects
I’ve gotten so behind on writing commitments, I thought I should “gamify” things a bit to see if that helps me make more consistent progress. To the extent possible, I’m now using Pandoc Markdown as the “source of truth” in my writing projects. I can convert that into Word format for submission to a journal …
List of side projects
This is meant to be an evolving list of hobby projects that I’ve worked on and made available online in some form. I link to a few of these directly from my homepage, but I think it will be more realistic to keep track of things in a blog post that can be updated without …