Academia.edu

If you’re not familiar with Academia.edu, it’s a valuable resource for professors. It allows us to list our publications and sends alerts when someone views or reads our work. For instance, I received an alert about one of my articles being accessed just today.

Academia.edu is a great tool for showcasing your publications in one place.

This reminds me of something that happened not too long ago. You might recall that someone created an anonymous account here on Substack to launch personal attacks against me. One of this person’s claims was that I only self-publish and have never had books published with Cambridge University Press (I’ve published three), peer-reviewed articles (I’ve written a dozen), or book reviews in journals (I’ve done dozens). Here’s what the anonymous commenter said:

I understand your disappointment—you wanted a debate and it’s not even a coherent paragraph; it reads more like a middle schooler’s diary entry. Why resort to such a vicious and personal attack against me in an anonymous comment? I couldn’t tell you since it is completely anonymous.

This is why Academia.edu is so helpful—it acts as an online CV. Over the years, I’ve published dozens and dozens of book reviews in journals like the one viewed above, many of which I’ve forgotten myself! Thus, it is nice to get alerts that people are still reading them. I’ve posted my CV here if you’d like to take a look, or you can explore my profile on Academia.edu.