Here is a very good post on the proposed overhauls of Ph.D programs. Did you expect to get an academic job, though? At Berkeley we were always told not to expect to get jobs, and I fully expected my academic career to end when I filed my dissertation. This may be part of my problem … More Brave New Ph.D
The last day of classes is May 3. Finals are May 6-10. Graduation is May 18 and if my summer classes make, I must meet them in Mexico City the next morning. I did not choose that summer schedule and I intend to defend myself by not giving finals and not attending graduation. Furthermore, Jazzfest … More Spring
Last week I completed required ethics training, in which I was taught what a bribe was and informed I should not take these. At the same time a distinguished professor at my university, one who sits in an endowed chair, was arrested during a drug sweep at a strip club here. He had just hired … More University diary
Invierte el sufrimiento posiciones, da función en que el humor acuoso es vertical al pavimento, el ojo es visto y esta oreja oída So, unfortunately pain grows in the world at all times, it grows at thirty minutes per second, step by step, and the nature of pain is twice the pain, and the condition … More The nine monsters
Here is a reading list for students considering graduate work in Spanish. Here is my list for students considering Latin American literature as a secondary field for the Ph.D in another literature. Like the SMT list, it is not a reading list for the actual examination, but a preliminary list. * Here is an ancient … More Reading lists
1/- I should read this on zapatismo as indianismo, but it lies out of the scope of my project, or does it, really? I would like to be in Bolivia to do it … and I am so tired of being under so much stress of different kinds and I wonder how much of the … More On some questions of scope
Thursday night my mother fell such that she is now in the hospital, and my colleague’s mother committed suicide. I am still grading, and today I am creating and hosting the department party. My general thesis appears to be that academic advice exists not to advise, but to suggest to people that events can be … More Chocant
Like Clarissa and fascinated by the study of Black academic dandies I discovered via Stupid Motivational Tricks, I am observing useful fashion items. What personality or interests in life are expressed by this kind of taste? Axé.
My current Breznyscope is quite good, and yes, it is all about freedom. We could, meanwhile, insert this clip in bad papers: Axé.
I was grading for Spanish courses taught to the language requirement, trying to recover from dealing with these peoples’ behavior, exhausted and bored and drained, and listening to NPR where they are interviewing a professor on a political situation in a country. Z: I would rather be that professor. In Reeducation this thought would have … More Anhelos, y un descubrimiento
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