[This week marks
this blog’s
9th anniversary! Nearly 2800 posts later, AmericanStudier has
become my most extended & enduring life’s work, and so this week I wanted
to share a handful of the reasons why I’ve kept it going for so long. Leading
up a special weekend list of other scholarly blogs that we should all be
reading—add your suggestions (including your own blog of course), please!]
I thought about
writing a post on my own plans and goals for the next year (or nine), but in
truth from my perspective they’re extensions of where the blog has been and
where it is here on its 9th birthday. Of course I look forward to
adding more voices into the mix, through Guest Posts, Crowd-sourced Posts,
social media conversations, and more, but otherwise, more from this
AmericanStudier is certainly in the offing.
However, there’s
another and even more impactful way to feature your voices—getting your input
on ways AmericanStudies can continue to evolve in the year(s) to come. As
always, I’d love to hear from you, including in comments here or by email; even just letting me
know who you are, what brings/brought you here, and the like would be very much
appreciated. But to create a space for even further response and conversation,
I’ve created a Google Doc that anyone with the link can contribute to. That
link is here:
Please feel free
to share your responses, ideas, suggestions, and more for the future of
AmericanStudies (or, again, just say hi and introduce yourself a bit if you
would)! The future is up to all of us, and that’s just as true in this space as
it is in America.
List of other
scholarly blogs to check out this weekend,
Ben
PS. So one more
time: other scholarly blogs you’d suggest for the weekend list? And please do
add your thoughts to the Google Doc if you get a chance!
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