The writing group is ill so I am calling people here since this is the check-in day. I am reiterating the prompt from last week, on being a happy writer. It is good and applies to more than theses; like all writing advice it applies to academic work generally and I in particular would do well … More Writing Group, Week 10
“I wish I could always have classes from you, because you are so much fun,” said my student. “It is not true that your classes are so demanding or difficult; you are merely intelligent and this challenges people.” She is in the minority. I have been telling people for twenty years that I should not … More On why I should definitely not be a professor
It is a commonplace thing, but it has its complexities and charm. In every class there is a blond Latin American with a last name in Spanish who at some point during the semester pronounces an anti-Spain rant. The other students say “Now, now, they at least gave you your language,” and the speaker says … More Blanc kreyòl
In Poligramas 25 (2006) Noé Jitrik ends his commentary on María thus: El arte de Isaacs reside en las alusiones, en las suposiciones detrás de las cuales todos comprenden la verdad que por pudor se oculta, en los cambios de plano, de lo subjetivo a lo objetivo, lo cual crea una atmósfera de veladuras no … More Psychoanalysis
Doing research this morning I got this frisson, the project is moving. I had not had that feeling of engagement and progress in a long time. Today I worked for 12 hours: 1 on research, 9 on teaching, and 2 on service. It was a teaching day in midterms, hence the 9; we have a … More Frisson
“Still, modern historian Francisco Scarano (1993:199) has argued that by the seventeenth century mestizos “were probably more numerous than the Spaniards themselves.” What may be at stake here is not the definition of “mestizo,” but rather the definition of “Spaniard.” Mestizos, especially those born legitimately and who lived according to accepted colonial norms were being … More Stuart Schwartz
Now that so much is paid by electronic bank transfer it is harder to keep up with receipts and it will be convenient to have a page in this blog for 2013 tax deductions. Right now we have this post. PROFESSIONAL EXPENSES AAUP IAS – STILL PAY – IT IS POLITE ILLI – STILL PAY … More Taxing post
Looking through files I found this letter I wrote to the MLA in response to their offer of help for Katrina-ridden faculty. Dear Professors Feal and Stanton, I am pleased to see that the MLA is extending material support to faculty displaced by Hurricane Katrina. I write to suggest that the existence of such support … More September 17, 2005
The student sitting next to me is writing his paper in Lyx. I have stopped for coffee on the way home to take note of the discussion of historical reenactments I heard on WWNO as I drove upriver. What history is it considered palatable to reenact and what is not? Why do people want to reenact … More Stopping by woods: exciting news of Buffalo Bill
He is available online in the Biblioteca Cervantes Virtual, fortunately. I must read this chapter in detail. Axé.
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