An interesting review of developmentalism and dependency theory.
Students do not get enough research training and what I now do in these hybrid senior/graduate courses is precisely at the level of what I did in Comparative Literature 1A, 1B, and 40, the freshman and sophomore courses I taught as a graduate student.
Marc Bosquet is outraged that the Ph.D now signifies the end of an academic career but that was what I was repeatedly told it would mean decades ago.
Jessica Valenti on not being liked, worth rereading.
Axé.