Saturday, December 15, 2007

Ooh, fame!

In the past week I've received copies of two different journals in which my work is referenced or cited.

In one case, it's scholarship I've written under my own name.

In the other, it's this-here pseudonymous blog.*

I'll let you guess which of the two journals has the (almost infinitely) larger readership.

Whatever, dudes. I'm pretty pleased by both.


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*Special shout-out to the reader who alerted me to this reference--I just got my copy in the mail today.

15 comments:

Ancarett said...

Impressive on both counts -- you should be pleased.

medieval woman said...

Way cool! Did a friend send you the copy of the academic journal? Or did the journal sned it to you?

Is that a stupid question?

Maybe.

Anonymous said...

ooh exciting!!

Flavia said...

MW: oh, that's a good question. No, I subscribe to both jounals as a member of the relevant organizations. The one in which it's my scholarship that's cited is quite specialized, and since the essay was on a very understudied work (and since I knew its author had liked my essay on the same work), I was pretty sure I'd be cited. So, I skimmed the notes before actually reading the article--THAT's how vain I am.

The other journal is the MLA's annual Profession, which (unlike PMLA) I always enjoy reading--but it might have taken me weeks or months to discover the reference to my blog had not a reader emailed me a couple of days ago and told me about it.

Simplicius said...

Hey, hey, there you are--congratulations!

Sisyphus said...

Yay! I just got that in the mail. Go you!

Meansomething said...

Wow! Can't wait to see Profession now. (The other one's cool too.)

Flavia said...

Thanks guys!

It just goes to show that You Never Know who's reading your blog (a fact that's freaking me out a little bit, actually).

gwoertendyke said...

granted, i only looked through for a few minutes, but i haven't found you in profession yet--where are you?

Belle said...

Congrats indeed! Very cool.

Flavia said...

AW: end of the Waters essay.

gwoertendyke said...

that is SO cool. i like that you and all of your "interlocuters" face tough odds head on & that "it is worth the world!"

very sweet--i concur, you are a particularly inspiring "young" academic. it is comforting somehow to know that blogs like yours are read and considered thoughtfully, rather than as the trash we waste our time with, as they are often perceived.

Renaissance Girl said...

just got my hands on _profession_: how massive are you?! whatever the other citation may be, this one is far, far cooler.

Michael Bérubé said...

Oh, that Lindsay Waters -- whatta blog-namedropper he is. But he does have impeccable taste in blogs, I see.

Seriously, Flavia, congratulations on the Ferule & Fescue Fame! And a shout out to your interlocutors, too.

undine said...

And you're the only one he mentions, too! Congrats!