by Jenae Cohn | Jul 22, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
Whenever I am asked, “So, what’s your research about anyway?” my stomach dips. My mind goes blank for a moment; what is my research about? Do I even know? Sometimes, I feel like the project I’m working on is so big that I don’t know where...
by Jenae Cohn | Apr 1, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
“You know, what you really want to do is create a personal brand,” the career counselor announced, a PowerPoint display glowing behind her with the image of a man in a suit shaking hands with a woman in power heels. I looked at the audience members around...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 22, 2014 | Pedagogy, Personal
Our instructor faced the class, arms crossed over his chest, stern face piercing us all into extraordinary guilt. Most of us had bombed the latest French quiz – a pop quiz, mind you – and he adopted that distinct teacherly Not Pleased tone....
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 2, 2014 | Personal
I have a common New Year’s story for you. It starts with an evening of carnivalesque revelry, of glitter and alcohol, of photographs and finger foods. It ends with a chorus of declarations of hope for the New Year, of promises to do things better and to make the...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 18, 2013 | Literature, Personal
I’m having trouble turning off noise today. It’s all kinds of noise: cell phone noise, social media noise, inside brain noise. There’s something poetic about being consumed in this “white noise” considering I am in the postmodern phase of my prelim reading. I think my...
