This conference is much less than world-shaking, but the venue is beautiful and nearby, so we are here. What I learned by presenting this paper, which ongoing research indicates is not original insofar as others have already made many of my points: these ideas are still new, and controversial to most people. This means that … More Present
I have found out why a really successful person, professor and chair and also endowed chair in field, now working in construction, quit academia: “Any life would be preferable, including life under a bridge.” I was shocked that this person felt that way, and it was pointed out to me that if it was a … More The most wonderful profession in the world
I do not have time to write this out but want to remember. Reading a summary of Van Patten’s SLA methodology; realizing how deep it is, and that you have to engage both intellectually and emotionally to use it. The non-native speakers in our program like Van Patten but the native speakers do not, preferring … More Traces of the language wars
Now that I have spent 44 days in a non-depressed state — I awoke August 17 to discover it was gone, and knowing it would stay gone, as in fact it has done — I can certify that it is not a question of time. I have more things to do than can be done … More On the question of time, and Range of Light
I Cortázar and “Viaje a la semilla” would be other stories to read; I read these in this course, which shows that it was avant-garde when I took it. I could make this iteration cohesive around a theme: stories of love and death. That would fit, if loosely, for almost all the writers I am … More That introduction to literature
Here we have an interesting blog and post. It is on Mexico’s Benjamin, and as we know I am trying to understand Benjamin more systematically and even to use texts of his in my history and culture classes that I did not understand, or did not think I understood, before. #Occupy HE. Axé.
I made decisions about two courses and now I am honing in on the third. I want, eventually, to drop the textbook but I will merely work toward that. Here is some boilerplate for the course description that I have lifted from someone else. This course provides an introduction to Hispanic literature and to the … More Courses Spring 2013
Vallejo’s 1931 interview has been translated. Part of Hart’s biography is visible as a Google Book. I need an excuse to go to Paris. Axé.
Sundays, when it rains, music with charango and zampoña is my recommended afternoon sound. I do not know how I acquired the habit, why this in particular would make the world seem familiar again. Axé.
Saturday: “Our university is an insular place, and it gets moreso each year.” (Tenured faculty, sciences) Friday: “That place where we work has very little to do with anything academic.” (Instructor, humanities) There also appears to be discrimination in the are of green cards: the University pays the cost for engineers, but not for others. … More Comentarios de la semana
