An MA student gave me a Christmas card today where they express the wish that my "Christmas discourse be free of problematic power relations". That's living and breathing discourse analysis🙂

How do you keep hope, when circumstances look insurmountable? Dr Gerald Roche offers encouragement. He's the author of "The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet", available from Cornell University Press. Listen to the whole episode: becauselanguage.com/109-language-o…

Academia is wild - the socially isolated recluse who avoids eye contact has to teach a classroom of 22 year olds

Doing a PhD really makes you appreciate how Gollum hid from the sun in a cave for 500 years