Get Off My Lawn and Leave my Footnotes Alone!

A stack of the MLA Handbook, the Turabian Manual for Writers, the APA Style Guide, and the Chicago Manual of Style

The story of my writing career in one scene. Please convert your footnotes to in-text citation? Fine, I'll make the switch. Can you meet me halfway with chapter endnotes? Book endnotes! Isn't that a lot of work for the reader, sifting back through the bibliography to find the endnote section? ...not if there isn't a … Continue reading Get Off My Lawn and Leave my Footnotes Alone!

CFPs: SCRIPT @ AAR and SBL 2025

Tis the season for Call for Papers, or as we sometimes call them, CFPs. I’ll sharing here some of the CFPs coming to my desk and why I think you might consider submitting a proposal. The first one up is for the Society of Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts (aka SCRIPT) for panels at the annual meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR).