Some of my former-students-turned-academics like to explain things to me. Whether we’re talking about the…
Rachel ToorDecember 20, 2016
About a zillion years ago, I was an editorial assistant at Oxford University Press, apprenticed…
Rachel ToorMarch 14, 2016
Readers of The Chronicle will be plenty familiar with "Troublemaker" Laura Kipnis, a professor of film at Northwestern University.…
Rachel ToorMarch 7, 2016
Not long after I graduated from college as an English major with a jones for…
Rachel ToorNovember 16, 2015
Not long after she had splashed onto the scene with the publication of her first…
Rachel ToorNovember 16, 2015
Sam Wineburg, a professor of education and, by courtesy, of history at Stanford University, emailed…
Rachel ToorAugust 17, 2015
I am always shocked when academics complain about being copy-edited, as if the marks that…
Rachel ToorJuly 22, 2015
I didn’t have enough time to train properly. I downloaded new software onto my Garmin the night…
Rachel ToorJune 22, 2015