I spent the afternoon reading the articles submitted by one of the candidates for a professorship that I am on the hiring committee for. For reasons of discretion, I won't mention details about what I read, but it was nice to read well-written scholarship by a scholar who both engages with the literature in the field and offers a conceptual, theoretical, and historically grounded frame for new discussion. This writer avoided a lot of the verbal framing (such as "I would like to suggest that") that often clutters contemporary scholarship in the humanities and then unfortunately obscures ideas that could otherwise have been as good as those I read about today. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 1 June 2026)