Stratofanatic's Emporium

I earned a pretty hefty honor last Friday -- the SBS Outstanding Service award . As you might imagine, this is an award for service above and beyond the call of duty, and it's especially meaningful because it's college-wide, not departmental. Particularly with how nasty the last academic year has gone, with contentious in-fighting concerning such basic concepts as labor equity in teaching loads, sort of recognition from the university means a lot. Anyway, since I put excessive time and energy into crafting this self-nomination letter, I'm sharing with you all.

Part of my job description is service -- specifically, service activities are 20% of what an U of A lecturer should be doing with their time. Well, I've just finished putting together my 2018 APR (Annual Performance Review), including the service component. I ended up with a score of 38. To put that number into context, the score range is 1 through 5 -- a five being "exceptional." So I think I got service covered here. Incidentally, since there's no official research component to my job, my research technically counts as "service" -- hence the score. At any rate, I'm including my list here for the morbidly curious. Service points earned: ___ 38 ____________ Publications (3) Article : “ Paul Edwin Zimmer’s Alliterative Style : A Metrical Legacy of J. R. R. Tolkien and Poul Anderson.” Mythlore , vol. 37, no. 1, 2018, pp. 183-201, 2018. (3) Article : “Identity, Time, and Faerie in Pig Tale and The Inn at Corbies’ Caww : An Unexpected Converge...