Zachary Sheldon

Senior Lecturer at Baylor FDM; TAMU PhD in Communication | teaching and studying communication, religion, and media | reading a lot, usually

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Hey! I've got a new article out about our obsession with and secular canonization of particular cultural icons - in this case, David Lynch! Check it out if you like Lynch, pop culture, religious studies, or me.

https://t.co/LEPrRqnpe3

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Everything I read in March and April (since I forgot to post one of these in March):

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

We have officially reached the stage in the semester where I'm mad at that imbecile (me) who assigned so much work to all my students.

[It's really all fine, always is, but sometimes the pile is truly daunting]

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Very happy that after a *long* gestation my piece with frequent collaborator Max Romanowski on "The Sincere Fincher" is finally out and available in The Popular Culture Studies Journal! @ThePCSJ

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Turns out no one needed me at 10am yesterday. Feel mostly relieved at that and also maybe a little abandoned?

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

I've had this feeling for the last two days that I'm supposed to be somewhere, doing something at 10am today. It is now 10 minutes 'til that deadline and I still have no idea what my obligation was. Very nervous about whatever texts/emails I'm gonna get soon.

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

First time taking advantage of the in-laws living in town, they're helping watch a sick kid so I can do a work meeting and WOW it feels amazing.

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Feels like this can't be true in any capacity but Amazon says that my book is #92 bestseller this week in the category of "Christianity (Books)"; anticipating mega sales and lots of public appearances soon, obviously.

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Spent the evening reacquainting myself with the special features for Star Wars Episode I and these are just evergreen pieces of core film education and dang fun to watch all at the same time.

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Logging back into Canvas after break like

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Pleased to come home from vacation to find my contributor copy of this incredible volume edited by @DrJADunne and Kris Song waiting for me - extremely excited to dive into it…and strangely excited to be able to say I’ve been published in a book alongside DFW…

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

@_BroverT Glad to see you finally got it! Out of town on spring break right now but this makes me extra excited to get home and see if it arrived…

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Received the news yesterday that I've officially been promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer! It's a tad stressful to have the word "senior" associated with any part of your life at my not-so-advanced age, but I'll take it.

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Day 5/Bag 5 - set complete.

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Finally feel like I’m at a stable point in the semester where I can slowly start working on this.

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Day 4/Bag 4

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

@_BroverT Ha, the one medium that suffers in my life…which is truly painful

[Zachary Sheldon @ZSheldonPhD]

Everything I read in February.