Why read The Roller Coaster: A Breast Cancer Story? My top 10: There's a lot to learn from this book about breast cancer treatment. There's a lot to learn from this book about advocacy (as a patient and a person). I share a view on breast cancer from the perspective of a 40-to-42-year-old woman who…Read more Why You Should Read My Memoir

Photo by Carrie Shanafelt, The Cyclone, Brooklyn, New York I have been writing my cancer memoir for over a year. This month I decided to finish it. It is now the last day July 2019, and I am ready to start sharing it with the public. This post is the first step in that direction.…Read more My Cancer Memoir: Introduction

This post is more of a list than a thoughtful rumination, but seeing as how I haven't blogged in a while, I thought you might want to see what I am up to these days. By the end of June I am sending my revised introduction and the collection of essays in Transatlantic Women Travelers,…Read more Summer Reading and Writing

#whatprofessorswear Content warning: information addressing sexual assault My colleague in the psychology department emailed the campus to invite us to wear denim on April 24, 2019--this year's annual Denim Day. Denim Day is in its 20th year of raising awareness of sexual assault and claims about women's clothing. As the Denim Day website explains: For…Read more WPW: Denim Day

#mkandja I am happy to announce that Erin M. Goss's edited collection, Jane Austen and Comedy, has been published by Bucknell UP (in conjunction with Rutgers UP). I contributed an essay to this collection, and writing this paper was so much fun. Why? Two reasons: 1) an essay on Austen is almost always fun, and…Read more Jane Austen and Comedy

#whatprofessorswear It's April, so I shouldn't be blogging about winter, right? Well, it snowed at least 5 inches yesterday, and the forecast calls for another 5 inches tonight. This inspires me to go back to some pictures from my winter wardrobe, which I guess I can't put away yet, and blog. Winter is a time…Read more WPW: Winter Bling

Image from Us Weekly's 2017 article on Betsey Johnson. #whatprofessorswear While Michael Kors is my designer--he brands all of his purses, clothes, shoes, and more with my initials--there is another designer I love: Betsey Johnson. Michael Kors is like my Jekyl. Betsey Johnson is my Hyde. Kors is all about logic and practicality. Johnson is…Read more WPW: Pick Your Designers