#whatprofessorswear Ah, it's another lovely summer day in the middle of a pandemic (or is it just the beginning? who knows). I'm sitting here thinking, wow, I haven't written a blog post for What Professors Wear in ages even though I've been professoring (made up that word) it every day this summer. Am I on…Read more Dark Academia

#whatprofessorswear You might be thinking "duh!" after reading the title of this post, but hear me out. There are people who do not wear pants to Zoom meetings. The guy in this video didn't wear pants to a meeting, and then he forgot to turn off his mic at the end of the meeting. Here's…Read more Yes, I Wore Pants to a Zoom Meeting Today

The COVID-19 world we live in now has taken a lot of stuff away from us. It hasn't given us much good, but it has gifted us something, and that is free opera streams! On March 17 I began watching The Metropolitan Opera's free nightly streaming of their Live in HD series. These performances were…Read more An Unexpected Gift: Opera

#whatprofessorswear Here we are...teaching online because it is the "safest" way for us to do so. In the age of COVID-19, we are not getting in our cars and driving to work. We are not packing our lunches or picking up coffee at Starbucks. We are staying home because it is the right thing to…Read more WPW: Teaching Online in the Time of COVID-19

#whatprofessorswear I have been teaching for two weeks since my university moved all classes online. When I would go to work before this change, I enjoyed "dressing up," which means I enjoyed creating outfits, selecting accessories, and basically caring about how I looked. Here are some pictures of the outfits I didn't get a chance…Read more WPW: What I Wore Before Online Teaching

I have been social distancing for 24 days now. During these 24 days it has snowed twice, but only one of these days was a true snow. It doesn't always snow a lot in March in Maine, but sometimes you get a nice, hefty snow that lasts a day or two. That snow happened on…Read more Social Distancing: Let it Snow/Let it Go

OK, that's not entirely true. I know it's been 17 days since I self-isolated/began social distancing. I haven't seen any friends, family members, colleagues, students, etc. in person since March 12. Today is March 29. I had planned to write a blog post for every day of social distancing, but I began to feel overwhelmed…Read more Social Distancing Day 6 – I’ve Lost Count

Three days into blogging about social distancing, and I got sidetracked. By what? Working on classes, book editing, spending too much time on the computer and needing a break, worrying, etc. I'm ready to get all caught up now. Even though every class period will be a work in progress, the book editing project has…Read more Social Distancing, Days 4-5

#whatprofessorswear Raise your hand if you were supposed to go to an academic conference--or even better run one--this spring....That's a lot of hands! So you are totally bummed that you don't get to go, and you hate to miss out on the papers and all, but what about the fashion? Don't you hate missing out…Read more Conference Fashion…at Home

Just went for a walk to the YMCA, which is close to my house. Did I go into the Y? No. I walked by it. How sad. I had just gotten into playing raquetball about a month ago, and I was getting good. Hubs and I would play one to two matches every week. Now…Read more Social Distancing, Day 3