Grading is done. And so far I’ve only had a handful of students complain. So that’s a good thing. The weather, however, is atrocious — hot and sticky — and my office has no air conditioning. So research is progressing slowly. Today was spent tying up some loose ends and compiling my "academic" summer to-do list (which I share with you now — in no particular order):
- Finishing revising thesis for publication
- Finish Google Print & Scholar article for Conduit
- New Media curriculum review
- Faust research
- Translation proposal
- Learn Xienet
- CSS/XML conversion work
- Website redesign
I wish I could say more about a bunch of things, but I can’t… at least until I can.
Faust as in Goethe’s Faust?
Yup. That’s going to be RIT’s production next year. Faust is interesting because of its tie into to the spread of 16th century media. Basically the social and market forces that brought a German book to England, why it was translated, how that translation reached Marlowe, and then how Marlowe’s play backchanneled into Germany to influence Goethe. I’ll have more on that in a coming post.
Yeah – spent a whole semester in undergrad on Faust. Good stuff, been hooked on Goethe ever since. Backchannel = puppetshow.