Backbone.js provides us another way to add an event handler to a view. We can do as thus:

```js
var EmailSignUpModalView = RmcBackbone.View.extend({
  events: {
    'blur input[name="email"]': 'onEmailInputBlur'
  },

  onEmailInputBlur: function() {
    this.$('input[name="email"]').mailcheck({ ... });
  }
});
```

The nice part about structuring like this is Backbone will automatically scope the selector to just within the root element, and will "delegate" this event handler, which allows this event handler to be registered even without the element existing yet (it works by catching events at the root element and then delegating to the appropriate handler depending on the event type and target).

Take a look at http://documentcloud.github.io/backbone/#View-delegateEvents