Misty Krueger

Breaking news: I’m blogging again! I’m wearing overalls again! I’m using exclamation points again! That last one is probably not a shocker. Last semester I did not blog as often as I wanted to because I was barely holding it together. I used all of my energy for teaching my two lovely classes and going…

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…

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. At the suggestion of a friend, I have been…

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,…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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 about wild, crazy, fun, emotionally driven clothing. One of…

#whatprofessorswear After I finished up my medical leave in December, I began teaching again in late January. I started the semester with a little bit of hair, and it was gray. Um, no. So I wore a hat. See that I am wearing the same outfit to prove that I looked much better with the…

The hiatus is over. What Professors Wear (WPW) is back! I had to take a break from the blog for a few reasons: 1) health, 2) health, and 3 health. 😀 While I wasn’t blogging for the last two months, I was taking selfies and pictures of my clothes so that when I would be…