Category Archives: Ideas and Opinions

An Interview with Kylan Mattias de Vries & Carey Jean Sojka

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Ed Battistella

Kylan Mattias de Vries is Professor and Co-chair of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Southern Oregon University. He has a PhD in Sociology from Southern Illinois University—Carbondale. His scholarly interests include inequalities, intersectionality, transgender studies, critical race studies, and … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading, September 2025

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Ed Battistella

Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English by Ben Yagoda. For a time, Ben Yagoda maintained a blog called Not One-Off Britishisms (or NOOB https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/) in which he tracked British usages in the US. In Gobsmacked!, he collected many of … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Paul Condon

Posted on August 11, 2025 by Ed Battistella

Paul Condon is an associate professor of psychology at Southern Oregon University. He has a PhD from Northeastern University. He has served as a visiting lecturer for the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute, and is a fellow … Continue reading →

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What I’m reading (June 2025)

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Ed Battistella

The Postmortal by Drew Magary This was a fun and frightening dystopian novel with an original twist.  A cure for aging is discovered (in an Oregon lab, no less). After some debate about its  safety and ethics, it becomes widely … Continue reading →

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