Anne Rodrick

Paperback writer🎶

The entire 4 volumes of 19th Century Popular Lectures are done, zipped, and ready to go to Routledge next week. I am exhaustified. But I beat the storm.

Vols 1-3 of my project are ready to submit. One more to edit. Tbh I’m a little barfy.

Did someone say “MOOC”?

All four volumes of my sabbatical project are drafted, three weeks before I submit the manuscripts and go back to the classroom. Copyediting should be lit, but I won't start that till tomorrow. Tonight we drink! (Maybe)

Yeah, I like my men with chins

*Lecturing the Victorians* is coming out in paperback in February!

Ummm only if you already have them

What is he, 13?

My youngest has not yet cooked her first Thanksgiving meal.

FD Maurice here, which I love b/c I’m including some of his work in my collection of 19th c lectures

Volume 1 of my 4-volume sabbatical project is now safely done and in a zip file. I need a drink.

English is your 4th language, yes? How’s mama’s basement?

Wow you are so bad at this

It’s like you know me

And now they’ve all graduated and now I’m taking my exhaustified , weepy self to bed for a nap.

All the humanities capstones have been successfully defended. This was the strongest and most diverse set of undergrad research papers we’ve had in the major. I’m now catatonic, but happy. Also, I may need an adult beverage.

Mother’s Day is always complicated, but hugs to all my beloveds—daughters, students, bonus kiddos. And the dog.

But first, coffee.

Finishing up a conference paper for next week’s MVSA on the journal “Science-Gossip” and wishing I had thought to entitle my abstract “Mutual Recriminations Delivered With Extreme Politeness.”

If you are as irritated as I am by Google AI-generated search results clogging up your computer, insert a curse word in your search bar and Google AI will be strangely silent. Just searched 'When was George Washington the *** president?" and lo and behold, I got actual results. H/T Joel Baehler

Anthony Trollope is saving my mental health, again. Just raced through “Ayala’s Angel” and “Mr Scarborough’s Family” and am now settling happily into “The Eustace Diamonds,” the first Trollope I ever read some 45 years ago. It remains brilliant.

My kid on Vance yesterday: “He was just excited to be IncLudEd,”waving sparkle fingers.

Life is terrifying right now but in the midst of chaos, I have students making an excellent case as to why Mr Darcy has great girl dad energy.

Spent my day as a judge for the SC regional high school ethics bowl competition. The kids are alright.

Two of my Jane Austen students are sisters who as kids spent summers with their grandma; the only video available was the BBC Pride and Prejudice so they watched it a million times and built their games around it: “I am Lady Catherine de Bourgh, bring me a cupcake!”

First batch of small creative projects are coming in, on Persuasion, and they are DELIGHTFUL.

Interim 2025, Reading Jane Austen, just started and we are already at the "Wait, she's marrying her COUSIN?" stage.

Yeah, same with history—to this day I can’t go to the AHA

My younger but still adult daughter just referred to my ex as “poopyface” and it was both fully justified and made me laugh so hard I felt much better.