Grading is done. And so far I’ve only had a handful of students complain. So that’s a good thing. The weather, however, is atrocious — hot and sticky — and my office has no air conditioning. So research is progressing slowly. Today was spent tying up some loose ends and compiling my "academic" summer to-do list (which I share with you now — in no particular order):
- Finishing revising thesis for publication
- Finish Google Print & Scholar article for Conduit
- New Media curriculum review
- Faust research
- Translation proposal
- Learn Xienet
- CSS/XML conversion work
- Website redesign
I wish I could say more about a bunch of things, but I can’t… at least until I can.
June 12th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Faust as in Goethe’s Faust?
June 12th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Yup. That’s going to be RIT’s production next year. Faust is interesting because of its tie into to the spread of 16th century media. Basically the social and market forces that brought a German book to England, why it was translated, how that translation reached Marlowe, and then how Marlowe’s play backchanneled into Germany to influence Goethe. I’ll have more on that in a coming post.
June 13th, 2006 at 8:41 am
Yeah - spent a whole semester in undergrad on Faust. Good stuff, been hooked on Goethe ever since. Backchannel = puppetshow.