Wifi now available in the ivory tower
Academics in the humanities are finally evolving.
4 min readJul 11, 2018
Half the room glared at me. So began the awkward silence. Heads turned down. A single cough echoed. The search committee chair forced herself to laugh. “So, that was…something. Questions?”
I’d just given a talk on the linguistic dimensions of social media discourse. To a bunch of English…
