Now I am coming up to the end of my second non-depressed month. I can see that part of not getting depressed is just mental health hygiene, as Clarissa says, and that includes, importantly, having resources for this and most importantly, knowing how not to internalize oppression. On the question of time, I now see … More Still more academic advice
Today I asked a Fulbright officer a question I wanted to ask over 20 years ago and got an even more positive answer than I had dreamed of getting then — had I dared to ask. I assumed that the problem I was having, that caused me to decline the Fulbright, was my problem, not … More Memories of underdevelopment
The other thing Jonathan and Clarissa do not understand about the situation of Rebecca Schuman and others is what it is like to work in a field the institution is working against. A common response to such observations is that the institution is against the humanities generally and that we are all suffering greatly. That … More Still more Schuman
Is it? I like this old article on exceptionalism by Lund. “The most implacable Latin American appropriation of Euro- centrism is a center/periphery discourse known as civilization and barbarism (civilización y barbarie).” Axé.
“Don’t be a professor, because it will not be about creating nice lower-division Spanish classes,” I was always told. “I know,” I always said, “that is why I am going on to the Ph.D.” But in my real life, being a professor is largely about doing that, and in poor situations por más señas. The … More Sobre la ironía
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
Do you see? Here is another person with a law degree. Axé.
These notes are or could be key for this paper but I do not have time to fully understand them, since I must finish it now. Mignolo 66: La idea de “América fue parte del “occidentalismo” y, más tarde, la idea de “América Latina” se volvió problemática cuando América del sur y el Caribe fueron … More A contradiction, because of time; I am rushed indeed
♦ You may add further authors associated with the literary “boom” of the 1960s, but you may not allege that all the writers of this group, or all Latin American writers, are “magical realists.” ♦ If you choose to include José Vasconcelos, you must also add Fernando Ortiz and Gilberto Freyre. You may not cite … More Rules for the M.A. examination, and for the area examination for the Ph.D., that I have actually had instituted in writing
. . . a broadly anti-intellectual professionalizing atmosphere that is inimical to the long, slow life of sustained thinking and unwilling to support it, with, I think, terrible consequences for the humanities—tellingly, the most productive scholars in my department have won multiple external fellowships that keep them away from campus; an administration that is indifferent … More A good essay
coldhearted scientist وداد 