[Shaun J. Russell]

As someone who joined Eratosphere long before starting college (I was a non-traditional student), and has been here through the 10.5 years of going from B.A. to Ph.D. and becoming a professor (currently a Senior Lecturer), I realize that I really have no idea beyond a few individuals who else here is working in academia.

My own scholarship is on early modern poetry (mainly 17th century), and I'm just starting to get some academic publication credits to my name -- an article on George Herbert published last year, an article on Shakespeare's Sonnet 145 coming out next year, and an article on Katherine Philips currently under consideration. Who else among us has been doing academic work -- in poetry or otherwise?

[Susan McLean]

I was an English professor for thirty years, but have been retired now for five years. I published a number of articles on Shakespeare, Frank Herbert, and Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as presenting articles and chairing sessions at conferences, refereeing an article for a journal, organizing readings by visiting writers on campus, etc. Once I started attending poetry conferences instead of literature conferences, around 2002, I started to transfer my energies to writing poems, translations, and reviews; organizing poetry readings on campus and giving readings of my own poems and translations, appearing on and organizing poetry panels at conferences. After my retirement, I have been translation editor at Better Than Starbucks and have continued to write reviews, blurbs, and essays about poetry, while also doing my own poems and translations. I was planning to continue to attend poetry conferences regularly, but managed to attend just one before the pandemic and then my mother's health prevented me from going. I am hoping to resume doing that eventually.

Susan