Category: News

Cuba y la noche

08/02/2013

This is the sign of progress: I am reading and enjoying the Goldberg book. As I have said before: people keep insisting reading is a way to avoid writing; you cannot, however, write without it. It is a sign of progress because in my worst period I could not read. I would think: this resembles … More Cuba y la noche

Arcipreste de Hita

07/02/2013

Acercándose viene un tiempo de Dios, santo; fuime para mi tierra a descansar un cuanto, de entonces a ocho días era Cuaresma, tanto que puso por él mundo gran miedo y gran espanto. I will say that again in Old Spanish soon. I will post messages to two classes this very night. One was thrown … More Arcipreste de Hita

Corpus delicti

05/02/2013

Another book I have never read is the History of Sexuality — I was bored with Foucault when it came out and could not take him seriously, and I have never gotten back to it. I should probably read it now along with everything else there is about the body, because race is about bodies, … More Corpus delicti

Work Monday

04/02/2013

3-9 work on a class, six hours, category teaching, and that is it. On the theory of touching research every day, I hereby commit to read something useful starting at 11 PM, one hour, category research, making this a seven hour day which is respectable. I have some service I really must do soon. Six … More Work Monday

Fontainebleau

04/02/2013

There are so many things I must visit here, sugar mills and Creole plantations. I understand why I have not visited more but this was an error. The crumbling brick ruins of a sugar mill built in 1829 by Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville, founder of the nearby town of Mandeville, suggest an interesting history … More Fontainebleau

Herman Melville

04/02/2013

The coaches of the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers just would be brothers because these teams are in the 19th century and they must therefore have an incest narrative. Speaking as a person from Louisiana where we have bands, I can say that the Raven Band is useless. The best thing about them is … More Herman Melville

Work tracking weekend

04/02/2013

Sunday: six hours, about three each on research and teaching Saturday: five hours, about three on research and two on service and housekeeping Friday (day off): one hour, research Thursday: nine hours, eight on teaching and consulting, one on research Wednesday: six hours, five on service and housekeeping and one on research Tuesday: eight hours, … More Work tracking weekend

Another course in cultural studies: representations of Mexico and Mexicanness

03/02/2013

This course is needed since Mexico has such a distorted and poor image, but apart from that there is so much material. We could look at Mexican and foreign theories. We could examine calaveras and decipher the china poblana. We could read Monsiváis and much more. This would also be a good course for study abroad. I could teach … More Another course in cultural studies: representations of Mexico and Mexicanness