Ever since Collin called my attention to the horrid time the MLA assigned the "Meet the Bloggers" panel, I've had a number of MLA-related posts hopping around my head. I waited to release them 'til today because:
- I've been busily replying to the scandalous number of emails Gmail squirreled away.
- The Silas Weir Mitchell chapter is sloppy step from a T.K.O.
- The program for MLA 2006 hadn't made it to California yet.
As I've nearly dispatched the first two items and the PMLA Fairy finally arrived, the reality of my impending talk is settling in and I need your help.
Boon companions will remember that my talk's titled "The New Interdisciplinary." Thing is, I'd love to pepper it with important sounding numbers suggestive of my readership's disciplinary and professional diversity. I would love it if you could leave a comment—anonymous is fine—telling me your discipline (if you're an academic) or profession (if you're a human being).* I'd appreciate regular commenters piping up too, as that'll make the counting all the easier.
* This includes all the good people who surprised me with their knowledge of Official Kaufman Arcana last night. (About which, more later.)
Software engineer. (It's like being a computer programmer except for the "Puff, puff! Toot, toot!" part. I like that part.)
Posted by: Ray Davis | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 08:15 AM
Mechanical engineer now, English undergrad (way back when.)
Posted by: CitronYella | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 08:54 AM
I'm an attorney who idiotically abandoned academia. A corporate attorney. And I shamefully represent insurance companies, banks, drug companies, and other such no-good entities. I really need a new job. Badly.
Posted by: Gary | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 09:11 AM
17th C. English lit (but broadly historicist). Started reading you when I was finishing up the diss & in a lectureship, now on the t-t.
Will try, with great, heroic efforts (I don't get up BY 8.30 a.m. if I can help it) to attend the aforementioned panel.
Posted by: Flavia | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 09:34 AM
Graduate Student, English Literature/American Studies at Cornell University.
Money is looking tight, but I'm gonna try to make it to MLA this year.
Posted by: Kevin Andre Elliott | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 11:41 AM
Another Amanda, delurkng to help (a brother?!?) out. I'm an architect and knew Scott a long, long, long time ago.
Posted by: Amanda | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 12:14 PM
Postdoc in Neuroscience. Came for the office sex, stayed for the Freud.
Posted by: Brian | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 12:44 PM
Past: BA in Modern Lit
Present: temp at a law firm (immigration)
Soon: ESL teacher
Not so soon: Grad school for linguistics/literature/culture/international relations (once I figure out how to rank these)
Posted by: Loki | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 03:19 PM
Grad student - Classics. Undergrad - Computer Science.
Posted by: Uri | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 05:04 PM
I do philosophy of biology and read blogs on the sly. Yours is among my favorites.
Posted by: Harshini | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 06:45 PM
Graduate student, English.
Posted by: Deborah L. | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 06:47 PM
Undergrad, applying to Master's in Jewish Studies
Posted by: Jesse A. | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 07:00 PM
Professor, Classics, overseas. :)
Posted by: Andreas K. | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 07:12 PM
Civil engineer, in Rhode Island, with a candlestick.
Posted by: Kevin | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 07:33 PM
A landscape architect who wasn't going to comment until she saw all the other non-academics and--sorry Scott, but I had the impression I was the only one--women chiming in.
Posted by: P.H. | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 07:37 PM
Due to popular demand, I've turned off the email requirement to comment. I won't leave it off forever—lest C1a|i5 and his bestest friends get the best of this blog—but for now, you can leave a comment without revealing your identity.
Also, I'll respond to individual comments a little later. I'm shocked and flattered by some of the people who've arrived and emailed. Seriously, I had no idea some of you read this silly, humble soul's blithering. But I'm glad you do, and I want you to know that you're not giving me a complex.
I already have one, thank you very much, and we're happy, I tell you, HAPPY!
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 07:47 PM
Since we're (mostly) all first-name-last-initial, I'll follow in kind:
I'm Josh, Ph.d. Political Science, and I sport the lowest prices on V1aGrA east of the Mississippi.
Posted by: Josh L. | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 08:23 PM
English Lit grad student (medieval division) reporting for duty, sir!
Posted by: Ancrene Wiseass | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 09:33 PM
Um, I write draw books and think you're funny sometimes.
Posted by: C.W. | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 09:56 PM
Classics prof, this my first blog-post ever. Got a kick out of recommending your blog to a PhD student writing on acephaly in ancient Greek metrics.
Posted by: michael haslam | Monday, 30 October 2006 at 10:13 PM