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Video Game Scholar, Production, & Management. Japanese Games and Pop Culture. Professor of Rhetoric. Doing too much stained glass art.
Jan 3, 2022 19 tweets 3 min read
I am mentoring a couple of search committees through #academia hiring practices today, and how to hire diverse faculty (which I have been fairly successful doing). It's not hard, but there are some guidelines search committees will want to follow. a thread Writing the job ad: Everyone puts women and BIPOC are encouraged to apply. Whatever. This sentence does not diversify the pool of candidates. Do you know what does? Creating a job ad that speaks to the research areas of BIPOC and female candidates.
Jan 7, 2019 14 tweets 6 min read
watching my thread discuss #marikondo is close to my research heart: the global circulation of cultural artifacts and practices, a thread The thing is that clutter and decluttering seems like an almost "human nature" phenomenon in late capitalism. We all have stuff and some of us are feeling overwhelmed by our stuff. Hence the long history of best-selling books about decluttering