I said what follows to someone but should gather good defenses of the humanities here. “Well, humanities profs don’t always respect their own discipline so they define it in terms of skills only. This is partly the fault of Teaching Goals where you are supposed to be training students to do things. My department now … More Defending the humanities
(Honestly, I should just keep writing things up and stop over-censoring myself. I said that Louisiana participates in both U.S. and Latin American constructions of race and racial meaning.) I said historical work on individual Creole women is important because literary representations are often a-historical. In Latin America the woman of mixed race has been … More What I said to the Creole society decades ago
It was a symposium on the Atlantic world I went to at Rice years ago and I felt so intelligent, the papers were so intelligent. I have very fragmentary notes. Let’s just type them and see if they make sense later. Instabvility of race as signifier Racism as a condition under which freedom could be … More Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
Every time I go into files I find notes to self about working in my department at UL. I’d be doing research projects and needing access to self to do them and be having trouble with it, and have revelations about how the abuse in my department was eroding me. These are not very legible, … More Addendum to my December moulting
Important. So, pinning to the top, we have the results: 1. Sacrificing everything to alleged institutional needs and goals is NOT actually good professional service. 2. My research is fantastic. I deserve to do it, and the world deserves it, even if it is not in one of the university’s desired disciplines (or challenges a … More The conclusions from my December moulting
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.
