Author Archives: stuartelden

‘Buy a cat, stay up late, don’t drink: top 10 writers’ tips on writing’ in The Guardian

Posted on January 3, 2018 by stuartelden

‘Buy a cat, stay up late, don’t drink: top 10 writers’ tips on writing‘ in The Guardian from Travis Elborough. Mainly about novels, but much applies to any kind of writing. It comes from their book Being a Writer, published … Continue reading →

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Why has submitting a manuscript to a journal become so difficult? A call to simplify an overly complicated process

Posted on January 2, 2018 by stuartelden

Why has submitting a manuscript to a journal become so difficult? A call to simplify an overly complicated process – interesting piece at the LSE Impact blog. It is widely acknowledged that submitting a paper to a journal is a … Continue reading →

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15(!) Interdisciplinary Arctic PhD Opportunities at DurhamARCTIC

Posted on January 2, 2018 by stuartelden

Exciting news from Phil Steinberg at Durham: 15(!) Interdisciplinary Arctic PhD Opportunities at DurhamARCTIC I am happy to announce Durham University’s success with a £1.05 million, five-year bid to the Leverhulme Trust to fund 15 PhD students in Interdisciplinary Understanding … Continue reading →

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2017 in review: round-up of LSE Impact blog top posts on academic writing

Posted on January 2, 2018 by stuartelden

2017 in review: round-up of LSE Impact blog top posts on academic writing I linked to some of these, but this is a useful summary. Lots more links and discussion on writing and publishing here.

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AHR Conversation: Walls, Borders, and Boundaries in World History (open access)

Posted on January 2, 2018 by stuartelden

AHR Conversation: Walls, Borders, and Boundaries in World History with Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Tamar Herzog, Daniel Jütte, Carl Nightingale, William Rankin and Keren Weitzberg. Since 2006, the AHR has published nine “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies in 2017

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

  Walter Benjamin’s thirteen rules for writing Foucault also struggled to get his students to do the reading… Delete your academia.edu account… (there are other ways to share your work) Michel Foucault’s acid trip in Death Valley: Interview with Simeon Wade with great … Continue reading →

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Cycling Tenerife – a ride from Caletillas to the Mount Teide observatories at Izaña

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Over the Christmas and New Year period I was in Tenerife, for a holiday and some cycling. Unfortunately in the second half of the time there I was unwell, and had dizziness and balance problems, so did no further cycling. … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory’s tribute to Peter Meusburger

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory has a very nice tribute to Peter Meusburger, who died in December.

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William V. Spanos (1925-2017)

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Literary critic and theorist William V. Spanos died on 29th December. His boundary 2 colleague Paul Bové has a brief report here. Although I never met him or heard him speak, I really liked his books Heidegger and Criticism, The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: … Continue reading →

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Novels and biographies read in 2017

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

A list of the novels and biographies I read in 2017. For the most part these are the reading I do which is not related to work, though some of the biographies blur that line. A mixed bag, of which … Continue reading →

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