My university likes honor societies. In college I was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and I joined it, to the amusement of those who felt a true aristocrat and rebel would turn it down. I did not intend to join further societies, however. Here I was first invited to join Phi Beta Delta, and felt … More In which I request your views
This is what I wrote on these matters in a post yesterday: What is it about the Freyre apologists? 1. Arrogance: they are an enlightened elite and everyone else is unsubtle. 2. Argument by authority: because of their identity they have special knowledge nobody else can have. 3. Apologetics: they have excuses for everything; only they … More Exceptionalism, nationalism, fascism, totalitarianism, identity politics, and authoritarian discourse
My culture course is not as challenging as the version of it being given by the Spanish Professor, but the students are still having a hard time. That is probably because, as was revealed today in a study, a majority of courses at my institution lack sufficient rigor. My course imitates a course given at … More Have you seen this book?
None of you are commenting upon my new name or helping me to mourn Mictlantecuhtli, which I miss and might have to resurrect one day. This was a poetry magazine at NIU that appears not to have lasted; it has an interesting article on Vallejo in the first number, despite poor bibliography (a situation which … More I am imperialist, colonialist, and naïve
It has changed. Under the new system my scores would have translated to 165 quantitative, 169 verbal. It appears that 169 verbal is unusual in many schools although it is only 3% higher than 165 in terms of percentile (95/98). But many of those who actually go to graduate school, have very high quantitative scores, … More GRE
Here, that is to say far below, is the abstract for one of the papers I gave when I was supposed to be working on Vallejo. I did not actually write it, but spoke from this abstract itself and a two-page handout of quotations. I could do this because I have excellent presentation skills. I … More An archaeological post
I still say this is the best academic career guide. I know people like him but I still think Boice is condescending and infantilizing and not designed for people who already know how to read and write, and I still say that my dislike of soft writing guides like The Artist’s Way does not indicate … More The compleat academic
The Spanish Professor has wanted to give the introduction to literary studies as a course in narrative theory, but if I cut down the number of genres covered I would do poetry and the essay. My colleagues say this would never work since these are the least interesting genres to students, the ones that will … More Introducción a los estudios literarios
Graniza tanto, como para que yo recuerde y acreciente las perlas que he recogido del hocico mismo de cada tempestad. No se vaya a secar esta lluvia. A menos que me fuese dado caer ahora para ella, o que me enterrasen mojado en el agua que surtiera de todos los fuegos. ¿Hasta dónde me alcanzará … More LXXVII
What if it is not “I hurt them terribly, in ways it was not fair of me to do and that still cause them daily pain, by being research oriented” — as I have always said since I accepted this as truth and repented for having disbelieved it for so long ago — but the … More Internalization
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