Reading lists

Here is a reading list for students considering graduate work in Spanish. Here is my list for students considering Latin American literature as a secondary field for the Ph.D in another literature. Like the SMT list, it is not a reading list for the actual examination, but a preliminary list. * Here is an ancient … More Reading lists

Chocant

Thursday night my mother fell such that she is now in the hospital, and my colleague’s mother committed suicide. I am still grading, and today I am creating and hosting the department party. My general thesis appears to be that academic advice exists not to advise, but to suggest to people that events can be … More Chocant

Grades

The way I make grades is, I first figure out what grade the student would get in Berkeley in the late 1970s. Then I go half a grade up if it is an upper division course, and a whole grade up if it is lower division, or if I feel I have been prevented from … More Grades

El tres

I always said my stalled projects had to do with Reeducation tout court and they did but Reeducation, including get-it-done academic advice which is an aspect of it, also obscured what were straight-up research problems, that could have been treated as such. The background to the fragmentation of research I experience now was laid out … More El tres