Liste, pour la semaine

Monday Grade three classes, prepare three Tuesday Car repair, plumber, roofer, call them all Teach three classes, work out Work on the deck Wednesday Finish preparing seminar, then give it Office hours 1-3 Meetings 3-6 Work out, start preparing classes Work on the deck Thursday Prepare and teach three classes, work out Work on the … More Liste, pour la semaine

C’est tout fini

I cannot tolerate further work on this abstract so, despite my dissatisfaction with it I am sending it in. This is the literary version; the Spanish version will be more sociological. Its title is El lado oscuro del mestizaje: raza y estado en tres textos decimonónicos, and I like that better. This was hard to … More C’est tout fini

In which my students may be unsophisticated, but do not lack insight

I had assigned the class to do some additional reading on Romanticism, and put each student in charge of introducing a poet and a representative poem. Here are some of the interesting comments and questions they had. ♦ Zorrilla was “financially unwise” and must have had a magnetic personality, to attract all those women looking … More In which my students may be unsophisticated, but do not lack insight

Experimental Poetry

Syntax Is a Second Skin. First manifesto of Infrarealism. Diez poemas y once poetas infrarrealistas. A sociologist discusses Roberto Bolaño. There is a Society for the Proliferation of Visceral Realism but Visceral Realism is a fictional poetic movement. I would prefer to work on poetry today, and do something athletic. Axé.

Militant Hispanist

I had been threatening to use this as a blog title. It would require writing an avant-garde manifesto. Once coldhearted scientist has served its purpose, I may change. I have rejoined the Revista Iberoamericana although this journal is one of the things we do still receive at our library; I have rejoined IAS and I … More Militant Hispanist

On college classes

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