Well, I’m back from MLA. It was fun.  I snapped the picture above waiting for an interview.  As it turned out, I would have been well-advised to rehearse my selling points, rather than recording the strange spectacle of MLA interviewees arrayed around the periphery of the hotel courtyard, as the suites opened and closed admitting and discharging fresh PhD’s and cleaning personnel. 

We’re taking this year’s MLA as a learning experience, which indeed it was.  By this time next year, I hope to have two or three placed articles, and a couple more conferences, and generally to be a much more a serious candidate.  I’m encouraged by the response to my materials this year—we’ll have to see how things turn out next time ’round.

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