Suspicion and informing. Students informing on each other, and one assigned to inform on the professor. Anne Appelbaum said this. I should look up more lists and see if more of my department’s characteristics are listed. Axé.
I hadn’t paid attention to him so far, and I am missing an interesting reading of some of his work in an interesting venue right now, but at least missing this reading has brought him to my attention, so at least there is that. I should get his Amazonian poems and use them in my … More Mazzotti
I should write that article, “What is a Scholar?” because I think the question explains a lot, the rules for being an academic, especially in the corporate university, are really different. I would understand a lot by doing it. I need to re-vision my trajectory in terms more like those Elizabeth sees. Also, there’s something … More Academic vs. Scholar, and related…plans
I can’t seem to comment on my other post so I will say here: What the grievance guy said: yes, the chair should be chair to the whole department and yes, you should say these things to him; All of Spanish, and the French graduate students, suffer from the practices of the elite-French, and they … More Meanwhile
I’m letting this book go today, it’s too dated for me, that is, does not feel like a classic. Axé.
The authoritarian mindset is hard to break. Here are things I would like to express to leadership in our department but don’t think I will be allowed to. I despair of being comprehensible, although I consider these things simple, so I’ll note them for the future. They are things are to save the department, whose … More Countering the Authoritarian Mindset
