Nerd work

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In one of my very first college courses, I remember discussing the (oh-so-true) maxim “Communication is the key to life!” Apparently it had an impression on me because (gulp) 13 years later, here I am with not one or two but three degrees in communication studies. Having recently finished a Ph.D. from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, I’m pleased to list “nerd” as my day job. Below, I’ve compiled a bunch of nerd-work related posts. (To see more nerdy professional details including CV/publications, click here or visit www.drmalviniredden.com.)

Research things:

• No “perishing” today: On becoming an academic author
• Nerdgasms and other insights from inside the “publish or perish” process
• Life lessons: You can’t win the lotto if you don’t play
• Nerdgasm: Honors at the International Communication Association convention
• Road rage sparks conceptual clarity: Remembering emotions are multi-faceted
• “Interesting,” the most overused word in academia and perhaps, the world
• Answering the ‘WTF’? questions and other curios
• Cocaine is not for kids
• Doctors are people, too

Teaching things:

• First day of school rituals
• Stripper turns award-winning college instructor? Hardly. Welcome to my most embarrassing moment in the classroom.
• Communicating with your college professor: 13 Dos and Don’ts
• Back in the teaching saddle and loving it!
• Grading Nazi/kindergarten teacher/saint: Processing student evaluations
• The loves and hates of teaching
• Reading about spiritual practices: Sometimes grading can be fun
• Grades are not Halloween candy
• Wait, they’re not actually demon seed?

Grad school things:

• Dos and don’ts of dissertation writing
• You can call me Doctor Blue Muse
• The only good dissertation is a done dissertation
• Greetings from dissertation land!
• How I plan to celebrate finishing the dissertation
• The dissertation downhill
• ABD and preparing for The Year of the Dissertation
• A grateful heart: Friends, the secret to surviving comprehensive exams
• A grateful heart: I SURVIVED COMPS
• Leaving the defensiveness out of the comps defense
• “Get your $*** done”: Reflections on a social media moratorium
• Celebrating the end of comps writing
• It’s not you, it’s me. Taking a break from social media (so I don’t fail my comprehensive exams)
• Intro to sensemaking, aka “How can I know what I think until I see what I say?”
• Operation Kick Comps Ass: How I plan to survive comprehensive exams
• “Losing my train” in front of my academic idols: Contending with public speaking anxiety
• Last fortnight in the desert
• Two years down: A Doctoretta in the house and a wife on the way
• The dirt on doctoral studies
• Five sour creams and the filthiest car in the west: Why I’m pretty sure PhD school causes brain damage
• Playback methodology: Feeling “in” my body
• Rekindling the academic mojo
• I heart the first day of school
• First year snapshot
• Nerdfest 2009, aka surviving the National Communication Association convention
• A gym-piphany
• PhD school one month progress report
• Whoa baby, I’m a big giant nerd