Expect posting to be light in the immediate future: tomorrow I’m leaving for the Southland conference on “Institutions: History, Practice, Method” at UCLA to deliver ” ‘Starting Monday, I kill a duck a day until I get a budget:’ Campus Novels Bite the Hand that Feeds Them Through Satirizing Academic Culture” (the quote in the title is from Richard Russo’s Straight Man). The abstract for my essay is available here.