I’ve just looked at my calendar and had a small heart attack. My blog, and your blogs, and Twitter, have become my favorite procrastination tools. But now I need to get something done.

The good news is that much of what I need to do, I can share with you all. In the fall, I’m teaching ethical theory, ethics and fiction, and a grad level feminist theory, and I’m also working on a couple of writing projects that have relevance to romance.

I thought about changing the name of this blog, or starting a new blog, but instead I’ll just expand the “About” widget or make this a sticky post to warn anyone looking for fun to escape while they still can. I’m not going to worry about how long or tedious these posts are. Sorry. But just think, my students pay to suffer through this stuff!!

Here are the likely topics, not in order:

  • Sadism in ethics and erotic fiction
  • Professionalism and practice in reviewing
  • The difference between judgment and taste
  • Objectivity in aesthetic values
  • Objectivity in ethics
  • Ethical criticism of literature (probably more than one post)
  • The paradox of fiction
  • The ethics of reading
  • Free will — what it is and why it matters to ethics
  • Biomedical themes in the Sookie Stackhouse series
  • The ethical status of pseudonyms in fiction
  • Gendering the morality of fiction
  • What is an emotion?
  • Ethics in memoir writing

Posts on these topics will take a lot longer to write, so instead of my average of 4 posts a week, I may well be down to 1 or 2

I will still do other posts when I can. Tumperkin and I plan to do a joint review of Meredith Duran’s latest when she gets back from holiday.

Finally, anyone who sticks it out until the end gets a blog banner that reads “I Survived the Amazing Intellectual Journey of Summer 2009!” (kidding!)

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