Aisha Finch, Forging race and nation
10/04/2019
Forward by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, with essays by Reynaldo Ortiz and Matt Pettway, among others. Axé.
Author: Iansã
Academic capitalism
10/04/2019
If you search this as a keywords through your library interface you will find that there is a great deal of material, much of it in Portuguese and Spanish. There’s a name I’ve been given, Adrianna Kezar, on this but based on titles, a review she wrote seems more immediately interesting to me now than … More Academic capitalism
Reading for pleasure Friday
05/04/2019
Other people read novels but to regenerate I like to read academic articles out of immediate field. This is Silvia Goldman, “Alonso Quijano o el relativismo inmutable,” RILCE 24.2 (2008) 323-337. DQ: between the medieval and renaissance worlds, dramatizing the social transformations that occurred with the advent of print culture … “El Quijote es el … More Reading for pleasure Friday
La nostalgie
05/04/2019
It is raining and it reminds me of Mexico, Chile, Berkeley, Oregon, places I wish I lived and where I could walk to bookstores. I would like to stay home and read today and this would in fact be research. “Tenho saudade de tudo.” My colleague says the problem here is that so many in … More La nostalgie
Another world
02/04/2019
I got up in Dupont Circle and walked past the row houses to a café, had coffee and came back and packed. I walked to the metro and rode to the airport, changing trains once. At the airport I read old notes on Vallejo and transcribed them, including the outline of an old conference paper, … More Another world
A test in Moodle
23/03/2019
Apparently, you make a Moodle assignment and then expand it. Axé.
Recipe for a toxic university
22/03/2019
Viewing faculty as cogs, and valuing them in that way. Fetichization of the “chain of command” supports cliquishness and the old-boys network. Favoritism. Lack of communication. Lack of equity. * EXPERTISE IS NOT RECOGNIZED. * Axé.
Already published
15/03/2019
Vision… Odor and gaze Lost from view (Without a trace) Oh fury… Scandalous life… Various lions… NOT ALREADY PUBLISHED BY US (BUT REVISIT TO MAKE SURE OF WHAT HAS AND HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED IN TRANSLATION BY OTHERS) Camino de tierra… Mundo ilustrado… El humo se disipa… Vienes en la noche… Batalla… Leve pisada… El … More Already published
E-mail too dry to send
05/03/2019
This weekend in Large City I saw a friend who is the language coordinator at R1. For exit interviews from the BA, departmental goal is to have 40% of graduates at ACTFL Advanced Mid, and the other 60% at Advanced High. I am looking right now at examples of Distinguished, Superior, Advanced and Intermediate readings. … More E-mail too dry to send
Koritha Mitchell
05/03/2019
Here is someone worth knowing about. I feel really alienated from work and really sad. But it is important to recognize, as Mitchell points out, that aggression is one reaction people can have to others’ achievement. I never understood this. I believed it when told I had done them wrong, and tried to disable myself … More Koritha Mitchell
