This evening my mother and I were looking at the book on her father’s family. She has the book, and I called it up from Hathitrust. On page 3 you can see a picture of their 1300-1659 seat, Holloway Court, in Kent. The family motto was spes alit agricolam. Prior to 1225 there is no … More Thain, thegn, thane
On the Value of an Independent Faculty Senate The rhetorical sleight of hand used in the attempt to discredit AAUP principles on academic freedom and tenure as well as to justify the marginalization of faculty senates resembles that used to discredit traditional university education and promote for-profit institutions and MOOCs. As academic blogger Undine indicates … More El texto, escrito, jamás será vencido
I learned from Vanessa Nelsen that Creole costumbrista authors putatively intent on demonstrating social realism pulled characters not from reality, but from a historiographical discourse that they themselves had already created. Does Nelsen know that one of the lettered discourses masquerading as reality is the plaçage myth? It is all quite interesting because the way Emily Clark says … More Shocking new facts about Villaverde
Today I had a leisurely breakfast with my guest and took her to the station, after which I did some errands. I came home and started laundry, looked at e-mail and did some financial things, and then it was noon. I had lunch and sat down to write, taking short breaks to wrap packages, make … More Le lundi
Ahora bien. Tomorrow I will start writing it in English and it will, as we have said, begin with Bolívar and then go on to Doris Sommer. Next it will talk about Goldberg and da Silva (and mention Sanjinés and Lund). The point is that mestizaje and the nation are old topics but race, modernity … More Race and the state…
Of course, personal effort is hardly the whole story. I know women who have leaned in for a lifetime and been passed over. But it’s hard to see what’s wrong with encouraging big dreams, giving pointers on sexist bosses and salary negotiations, and telling women who join the mommy track before they even have a … More Sheryl Sandberg
March 19 is St. Joseph’s day, my favorite holiday after Hallowe’en. This is an esoteric taste but it is the spring equinox and here the Mardi Gras Indians have important parades on this day. There are extravagant altars all over New Orleans and you must visit them, and eat the food that is on them. … More St. Joseph the Worker
→I do not like my paper title and it wants to be in Spanish, anyway. I could do another paper, too, on Latinness and the idea of the Hispanic; somehow this could fit into my book; I actually gave a paper like that years ago and did not get back to it; it is one … More El lado oscuro del mestizaje: raza, estado, latinidad
I like my classes this semester because I have programs for them I can believe in. We have current theory and criticism, and engaging, authentic materials; we are not classifying texts according to movements, nor authors according to generations. Memorable courses I took in college include: –Calculus with a Buddhist T.A. Theoretical and wiggy. –Denmark’s … More On college classes
Here is part of the MLA proposal I had just written when I lost my way in life a second or third time. But early April 2004, still in Lent, was the last time I was able to concentrate as I am now. I was so happy to be working again and although I did … More On starting where one left off, this time much stronger.
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