December 10, 2022 Staging the Self: Reflecting on the things which represent us Well, this post has been percolating for a while! I’m at the stage of my PhD (or maybe just life) where many things are…
October 31, 2022 Death of the Author: Has its use changed? How is everyone? It’s been a while but, as discussed in my last post, I’m continuing to make some PhD progress. I’m at the…
June 13, 2022 Classroom Set-ups: Offering ‘Backstage’ Glimpses Through Online Performance Four days until the next wave of Shifting Sands! I think we might actually be back to the beginning now? Either way, if you…
April 25, 2022 Bookish Performances and Hierarchies And, just like that, we’re almost at the end of April. How did that happen? I’m deep in the discussion chapters of my dissertation,…
March 14, 2022 Author Decisions and Adaptation: Should Shifting Sands have been Cinderella? Oops, it’s been a while since I wrote a blog. Time keeps moving so quickly! If you’re signed up to my newsletter (and why…
January 31, 2022 Me, Myself, and the Social Media Archive One of the difficulties of social media is that it simultaneously acts like moments of speech and an archive recording everything you’ve ever posted….
November 8, 2021 Social Performances and Different Stages: The Self Online Last month I talked about the self offline and the respective stages on which we perform for different audiences. Whether at work or at…
October 8, 2021 Social Performances and Different Stages: The Self Offline There are a number of different theories relating to identity. Some are more focused on our personal selves and others look at the public…
August 9, 2021 Reflection and Planning Time: Shifting Sands and PhD Research August 2021 Another late blog – I hope this doesn’t become a habit! I actually have about three half-drafted blog entries sitting in my saved pile…
July 19, 2021 Author Identity and Online Behaviour I’m quickly approaching a full three years of my PhD, meaning the next step is “write-up” year. My original write-up year plans involved editing…
