Bueno, gente, I want to start this meme while it is hot even though I, personally, will have to come back later to do a really good job at it, as it will take some thought. But the meme is, a) what are you actually ashamed of, and b) what have you been shamed for? … More Self-Tagging Shame Meme
I What I am about to propose is considered incomprehensibly unfeminine. If I implement it I may see my enrollments decline and the quality of my student evaluations sink. But what I would like to do in all my classes is get up and lecture, assign a midterm, a paper, and a final, and leave … More Some Students
Now it is time to link to On Shame, the best post ever of all those I have read. Read it at its home, because I am only reproducing the opening riff. After this it gets truly deep. After unabashedly complaining about having an single income family, of which she is not the earner, that … More The Best Post Ever
PROFESSION The reason I do not like being a professor is that it is not like being an intellectual, it is like being a high school teacher, a social worker, a librarian, a secretary, a mother, a sorority girl, an IT person, and a government employee. I saw this in my first week of professordom … More Roads to Perfection III
I am going to Leyla’s wedding tonight, to a boy I do not trust and on whom she has already spent her savings. She is still working as a supermarket checker. She was an honored and beribboned graduate of our department and I am more than sure that it is for reasons of race and … More Roads to Perfection II
Camino de perfección is a novel by Pío Baroja, but that is not the point. The point is that assiduous readers of this weblog, and of its many entries on Reeducation, may be scratching their heads. How is it that that Professor Zero, seeing perfectly well the many flaws in certain paths, and being quite … More Roads to Perfection I
*Las cabezas bien pensantes is the title of a story by Elena Garro in the collection Andamos huyendo Lola. I spend a lot of time explaining to undergraduates who are the first in their family to attend college how things work and what the possibilities are. The candor of their questions is refreshing and makes … More Unas Cabezas Bien Pensantes
This is really funny – and there really is one of these guys in virtually every class! Via One Salford Feminist. Axé.
Since, very tragically, I cannot find my files I have decided I will fly blind into class, grounded in what I know from the last time I taught this subject and in what I have been thinking about it over the past few days. Instead of refining the beautiful handouts I cannot find, I will … More On Level Playing Fields
Some important items to consider this evening are: 1. My feelings of frustrated desperation. I have taught this novel three times with increasingly brilliant handouts. The last time I taught it the handouts were truly stellar, and a great deal of scholarly reading went into creating them. I start teaching the novel again tomorrow and … More Louisiana News Tonight
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