User:Panglossolalia
About Me
[edit]Hello! I’m a long-time user and relatively-newly-minted contributor to Wikipedia, interested in the stories we tell — especially the ones hiding in plain sight. I’m particularly drawn to classical history, where one quiet anecdote can explain centuries of political theory. My first Talk page contribution was to the Talk:Periander article, proposing the addition of the Herodotus/Thrasybulus wheat field story.
I edit with a preference for:
- Sourced stories
- Clarity over jargon
- Respect for nuance, especially in historical articles
Interests
[edit](in no specific order!)
- Classical Greece and early Rome
- Storytelling in all its many forms
- Political metaphors in historical writing
- Spaceflight and aerospace engineering
- Software engineering and education
- The evolution of narrative in encyclopedic tone
What I’m Doing Here
[edit]I am a professor of Information Technology at a small, regionally-accredited university, and I sometimes use this account to show students how Wikipedia works. I’m exploring where a well-sourced sentence or two can restore lost context — or at least make the reader say “huh.” Let’s see where it goes!