In 2015 the wonderful Academic Monkey linked to a Rebecca Schuman article as part of her "unsolicited advice" series. When another academic made Schuman aware of this, this tweet appeared:
Listen, that's fine. There are a lot of people on this site who love Schuman's work. Ben and Cassandra and I have all said glowing things.
She tweeted today and commented on our blog that she had never emailed any mod something similar to her tweet, and I cannot produce evidence she has because I'm notoriously clean with the shared mod mailbox - for privacy concerns, obviously.
If I misunderstood things Schuman has written about the blog, I'm happy to be wrong.
She tweeted today and commented on our blog that she had never emailed any mod something similar to her tweet, and I cannot produce evidence she has because I'm notoriously clean with the shared mod mailbox - for privacy concerns, obviously.
If I misunderstood things Schuman has written about the blog, I'm happy to be wrong.
If we only got called snide and ignorant, I know we didn't properly do our job!
ReplyDeleteBut, I can attest to some critical message sent to us from Schuman because it was shared among the mods. None of us quite knew what we'd done, but assumed it was something in Monkey's post or the comments that might have dismissed some of the ideas in the original article.
But, yeah, I love her work, too.
Terry P.
Bullshit on the picture. Fab never wears a tie.
DeleteBullshit on Terry. Fab wore a tie when he and Strelly got married. (Too inside?)
DeleteSomebody remind me why I allow comments...haha.
DeleteXOXO
Fab
I'd say it's getting a bit weird in here, but I'm pretty sure that's a preexisting condition of long standing, in occasional (very occasional) remission.
DeleteI'm also glad to hear (below) of the amicable twitting, since the "if those emails exist, they weren't from me" reference in the other thread was flashback-inducing (and I'm only a reader/contributor, not a mod). On the other hand, if she really does follow this place, maybe she knows the history, and was playing with us/you with that argument? In any case, I'm glad all is now copacetic; I certainly didn't mean to stir any pots, wake any sleeping dogs, [insert favorite metaphor here].
P.S. re the clean mailbox: that would be comforting, except I'm sure the Russians have copies somewhere. Fortunately, I suspect exposing CM emails is pretty far down their priority list.
Schuman is great!
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't the "main ballroom." It's called the Grand. I was so upset that year about the Blake Bortles pick at #3 that I took that tie and tried to hang myself with it later. (In the smaller Gold Coast ballroom, where I interrupted a wedding reception. Those folks were nice. We still stay in touch.)
ReplyDeleteMeh. If she's who I remember, we were briefly in a grad-level class together "back in the day,"
ReplyDeleteI didn't care for her then and I do not care for her now.
- anon y mouse
Gah. That's not helping. We can never make friends.
DeleteELS is right. Let us make friends with someone for a change. We're so hard on everyone!! I twitted like crazy with Schuman today and we're going to make it work!
DeleteHurrah! (re: the twitting)
Deletemouse: I have both undergrad and grad classmates who I didn't much care for, and still don't much care for, who are nevertheless doing good work of various kinds. I rather like Schuman from the little I know of her; I also think she's right about a lot of things, and doing the academic community generally, and prospective and current grad students in particular, a favor by pointing out just how bad things have gotten, especially in some parts of the humanities. If English lit scholars didn't frequently double (and receive some training and a lot of experience) as composition teachers, I'd be in a very similar position (and since comp and rhet is increasingly a separate field, anyone who contemplates and English lit degree today is increasingly likely to land in a similar position).
Love the title! Worth every minute of the wait, I'm sure.
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