Roopika Risam
H-index:
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Definitely. It’s more fun too. One of my mentors would up at a point in her career where she figured out that she wanted to be, in her words, a doula for other people’s work and now I get it.
Early 2010s Roopsi… had opinions. And didn’t always know the best way to communicate them.
The early days of DH, before I learned more tactful and effective ways of saying what I really think were a joy for none, least of all for me!
Having now redone my CV, due to new guidelines, which required going through every single thing I’ve done over 12 years, it strikes me how much my career has depended on people who gave me chances despite little evidence that it was actually a good idea. Perhaps they regret that.
It's amazing the kind of stuff you find written about you when you are trying to make sure you didn't miss anything for the "media appearances" section of your CV.
It totally is... we are going to have to switch platforms and this will be our problem because right now we use one that automatically registers them.
I'm just a girl, standing in front of a CV, asking journals to all have DOIs.
Omg that was me watching Rocky, wondering why I was watching an art house film and where the machine guns were.
Or to circle back to Tommy Lee Jones opening monologue that I forgot by the time he actually became the main character.
I was interested in No Country til it stopped being about Josh Brolin and started to be about Tommy Lee Jones. (I get the point of that but it seemed like an abrupt change to totally different film and required remembering the opening monologue from 75 minutes ago.)
This is why I wanted to watch There Will Be Blood - I have a colleague who complains about people drinking their milkshake.
I am not convinced they are not the same movie. Has anyone seen them in the same room? 😂
Just watched No Country for Old Men while thinking it was There Will Be Blood and spent much of the movie very confused about when we would get to Daniel Day Lewis and the oil.
Thank you @adamlinson.bsky.social for hooking me up with the last PDF I need for my promotion dossier. Could cry with relief.
It is totally bizarre to have to do a table of contents for my Interfolio promotion dossier when my CV is already there and all the contents are divided up and listed in the same order as my CV. 😵💫
I think you hit the nail on the head with the problem. There is only one mention of horses in the whole dossier. And that only because in a co-authored and peer-reviewed article we have a sentence like “we are professors, librarians, instructional technologists, sewists, horsegirls…”
And now we are at the "what even is scholarship?" portion of the promotion dossier journey. 🤦♀️
Am currently embodying “a lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part,” only I am the first part and work with kind people that they aren’t being the second part.
My beloved: Something is going wrong in Roopsi Land
Roopsi: Was I making a face?
My beloved: No, your sigh quotient is OFF THE CHARTS.
Roopsi: Sigh.
Roopsi: Was I making a face?
My beloved: No, your sigh quotient is OFF THE CHARTS.
Roopsi: Sigh.
Ah, now we have circled back to the “made bad life choices, should have been a normal humanities scholar” phase of promotion dossier assembly.
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My impulse to phase a project like there wouldn't be grant funding was good, but I didn't imagine that the federal funder for my field would cease to exist or my work would be *unfundable.* It's sad—future plans would have impact for the project and for the field through the tools they'd require.