Two basically unrelated updates. I have been cleaning house. Literally: because I’m going on leave starting July 1. I will be visiting at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and working on my book on genre fiction. I’ll return to my Rutgers teaching in the spring.
Also, metaphorically. I recently read Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s memoir Dreams in a Time of War (reading note on bookwyrm) and decided to update some of my annotations to his novel Petals of Blood with some information from the autobiography. Having done this, I became annoyed that my website’s headline font lacked the two vowels with diacritics in Ngũgĩ’s name. In order to fix this, I could have just changed the font, but instead I made the completely rational decision to update the whole website, switching to a new underlying Hugo theme. It’s not a huge change, but possibly there will be glitches here and there. I regret to say that the change in the picture of me showing evidence of aging is not due to a software defect.