I'm Trevor Burrows, and this is my personal website.^[1] Thanks for visiting.

I launched this recently as a space to collect and share thoughts in a variety of formats, for myself and others. I keep a blog for longer, semi-formal posts, a digital garden or wiki for notes and pages that are likely to change over time, and a microblog feed for quick thoughts and out-of-context weirdness. I expect to also use this space to share longform formal writing, eventually.

It's been really important to me to try and grow this space organically. Part of that means that I don't have a perfect sense of what this space is or will be. I'm enjoying making it up as I go along, trying to find what works and what doesn't. It is perenially under construction, like all good websites of yore.

RSS feeds and social information are available at my /follow page.

Un-professionally, I'm an all-around humanities addict. I read poetry daily, try to keep one or two pieces of fiction and non-fiction going at any given time, and find a lot of my sustenance in all forms of art and culture -- especially music which, in the words of Gary Bartz, is my sanctuary.

I also regularly try to garden and bake. I play some music, too.

Professionally, I'm an instructor of History at Eastern Illinois University and a historian by training. I have particular specialization and/or interest in US Religious History and critical religious studies, digital history and the digital humanities, and I probably lean a bit towards intellectual and cultural history (at least in interest). A lot of my focus these days is in the how and why of history, its method and practice.^[2]

Although this is a personal website, I do hope to share some professional thoughts and materials here, including syllabi, teaching observations, and writings on history.

Academics often have trouble drawing a line between the personal and the professional -- and I am no exception. That said, anything written on this site is 100% my own opinion and is not shared as a representative of any institution or group.

This site is made with Eleventy, and a good amount of its content is written in Obsidian. I've shared some notes about my Eleventy/Obsidian set-up at Setting Up a Digital Garden with Obsidian and Eleventy, and I keep track of other aspects of the site's development at Website Additions and Changes.

I haven't used any pre-existing templates or repos for this site; I wanted to take a stab at doing it all from scratch. Not too shabby, eh?

Current fonts are Maranatha and Wittgenstein.^[3]