Warning: file_put_contents(/opt/frankenphp/design.onmedianet.com/storage/proxy/cache/8900b8a8c27a471ed108057a4744e8a6.html): Failed to open stream: No space left on device in /opt/frankenphp/design.onmedianet.com/app/src/Arsae/CacheManager.php on line 36

Warning: http_response_code(): Cannot set response code - headers already sent (output started at /opt/frankenphp/design.onmedianet.com/app/src/Arsae/CacheManager.php:36) in /opt/frankenphp/design.onmedianet.com/app/src/Models/Response.php on line 17

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /opt/frankenphp/design.onmedianet.com/app/src/Arsae/CacheManager.php:36) in /opt/frankenphp/design.onmedianet.com/app/src/Models/Response.php on line 20
HISTORISTA | Examining the surprising, cool, and weird ways that people engage with history in everyday life
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20160321121344/http://www.megankatenelson.com/

HISTORISTA

Examining the surprising, cool, and weird ways that people engage with history in everyday life

Why Every Historian Should Watch (More) Television

ollyy_tv_shutterstock
In my first job out of graduate school, I team-taught an undergraduate seminar with an older, male colleague. On the first day of class, the students went around the room introducing themselves and talking about their interests. When it was my turn, I listed my interests as “Nineteenth-century southern history, American literature, and Buffy...
Read More

Is There a Future For Creative Academic Writing in Academia?

typewriter
There’s been a lot of talk lately about how and why academics should write for “public audiences.” By this we usually mean that academics turn from the usual professional audience (fellow historians, in my case) and seek to engage non-academics who have an interest in the subject at hand. This discussion – and all of...
Read More

Campus Visit Horror Stories — And Why We Love Them

screen-shot-2013-03-18-at-4-32-24-pm
This is one of the most trying times in the academic year. Job candidates are feverishly monitoring the Academic Jobs Wiki and reading one another’s Facebook status updates for clues. “Did she just check into the Madison Marriott? OMG!” Successful job candidates, having received an invitation to campus, are trying not to panic as...
Read More

What Not To Wear … to your AHA or MLA interview

book_circus_alisar_wolke_srgb_10x15
It’s that time of year again, people. The major academic associations in the fields of History (the American Historical Association) and Literature (the Modern Language Association) will be meeting this week/end in Atlanta (Ga.) and Austin (Tex.), respectively. There will be panels and receptions and live-tweeting. There will be coffee dates and awkward elevator...
Read More

Historista’s Guide to the Writing Life Part III: The Trade Book Proposal

selling-the-c-word-hollywood-journal
The Book Proposal: the most important document that you will create in this whole process. So you know, no pressure. Many of you may have written book proposals before, for academic presses. The good news is that trade book proposals share much in common with their academic relations; the not-exactly-bad but somewhat confusing news...
Read More
© Copyright 2014 Megan Kate Nelson.