Professional Raconteur: The racket of Professing

raconteur \rack-on-TUR\, noun: One who excels in telling stories and anecdotes. Raconteur is from French, from raconter, "to relate, to tell, to narrate," from Old French, from re- + aconter. Higher education in all its "glory": teaching, writing, politics (when it's possible to be discreet, of course), and anything I have to profess or confess.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Summertime, and the living's...easy?

I used to dislike summers. Sounds strange to some, I know. I didn't like summers because school was out. Sounds even stranger, huh? Here...

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Are there any original experiments in social behavior left?

If the Pulitzer isn't proof of an original thinker, what is? In Communication Studies, we often value building on the work others, even ...

How to "fix" a basic communication course?

Well, not fix so much as refine, revise, and improve. My colleagues and I did some work on our basic communication course this past year wit...

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Liking your job too much...

I love my job. It's no secret. And even though my wife, Heather, often tells me I need to spend less time at the office, here am I on ye...

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Do white people really love grammar this much?

I'm not sure I buy this , although I did spend some time marking such mistakes on graduate student theses this semester. Hmmm...

Friday, May 2, 2008

What will imitation get us? Playing With Identity in Classroom Performance

"For one of my class group presentations, the students created a game show. One of them was performing you being the host." The gr...

Monday, April 14, 2008

Ethnographically speaking...

I was invited to "translate" one of my articles into a Communication Currents column. Communication Currents is the National Commu...

View web version

About Me

Kurt Lindemann

View my complete profile

Powered by Blogger.