What I Can Bear to Remember about Academic Job Video Interviews
It’s that season again: Skype and Zoom links are being clicked through in email inboxes, along with actual phone numbers being dialed, …
Teaching Data Driven Cultures
In my recent blog post, Teaching Queer America, I reflected on my second senior seminar. In this post, I want to briefly …
Teaching Queer America
This spring I taught two incredibly exciting courses. The senior seminar, Queer America, was comprised of a small group of students, primarily …
My Recommendation Writing Policy, and Advice on How/When/Who to Ask
Semester after semester, I find myself receiving an increasing number of requests to write recommendation letters. They are a pleasure to write. …
Didn’t I Just Get Here? Or: Reflections on My First Tenure-Track Semester
Whoa. It was August 1st and a chemist friend (god bless you, Ryan) and I are in a U-Haul on I-495 wrapping …
Reflections on The Digital Image of the City: Hartford 2015
As the new semester is upon us–how did that happen so quickly?–I wanted to reflect back on my courses from last semester. …
Gender & Geography Bibliography Hackathon a Success!
As I just wrote on the Gender & Geography Bibliography (GGB) website, during Geography Awareness Week in mid-November 2015, over 49 individuals and …
Sharing Student Research from Data Driven Societies (Bowdoin 2014)
In the spring of 2014, I (Jen Jack Gieseking) taught Data Driven Societies with Eric Gaze. A geographer and a mathematician, a …
New article: Notes from Queer(ing) New York: Refusing Binaries in Online Pedagogy
My new article with the Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy just launched this morning. You can read Notes from Queer(ing) New …
My Advice to College Graduates
Over the last week, my graduating students have been asking me again and again for advice. Since I began my career in …
Updated OA Readings & New Page: Pedagogy
Firmly behind the practices and policies of open access (OA), I have used the fantastic Sherpa Romeo which allows for searchable publisher …
“Queer(ing) New York”: Education for Change, on May Day and Beyond
The CLAGS Seminar in the City that I am teaching, “Queer(ing) New York,” will begin this evening, May 1st. Since creating this …
Welcome to the Gender, Sexuality, & Space Bibliography
The Gender, Sexuality, & Space Bibliography has a genesis through my own personal and work history. When I was an undergraduate at …
Bringing Sandy into the Classroom, from Fish to Tech, Politics to Design
How can we bring the issues and aches of Sandy into the classroom to help work through what has taken place? Here’s …