What academic presses that you did not think required subventions, do in fact require them? My answer so far: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures — which I never thought of as a kind of Peter Lang. How far along the subvention road should we consider books to be “vanity” publications? Or should we stop being … More Academic Mondays: A Query
I learned to write with footnotes and I like footnotes. The format of the book for which I am currently writing a piece allows footnotes. Writing along, I realize the extent to which my struggles with writing have to do with not being permitted footnotes. If you must discuss everything in the body of your … More Academic Mondays: On Footnotes
In Reeducation we were to accentuate the negative. We were to find our faults and our weak spots. Admit, accept, confess, apologize, make amends, promise to improve, and on, and on. For me, though, that kind of negative approach makes improvement hard. History matters but fretting about it is pointless — although one of Reeducation’s … More Positively
Here is his useful blog, Changing Universities. Axé.
I have said it before, and I will say it again: I should have started writing this book years ago, because I have amassed far too much material. Had I written more about some of it earlier, I would not now be wanting to stuff all of it into every piece. So I was really, … More Writing on Writing
I am now much happier than I was when I started this post because the electrician came and fixed the electricity. Now I can, for instance, take a tepid, not a freezing shower if I want to, and if it is dark, I have light in the bathroom. This is after twelve days. That, perhaps, … More Academic Monday: What Do You Need?
Dear Whiteman, I really have had just about enough of you. I will say it once again: I do not like to be projected into. In particular, I do not like to be projected into by condescending, poorly trained and weakly professionalized individuals. If I am a perfectionist, how is it that I send out … More Dear Whiteman
“It is very hard to find people interested in literature — even in departments of literature!” Axé.
People say professors lecture from ancient, yellowing notes, but mine lectured from drafts of their newest book manuscripts and invited their famous friends from other institutions to do the same. This is why, when I became a professor, the institutions I worked for seemed to me to be behind the times in terms of research … More On College Teaching, and on Paulo Freire
The advice to “just write, keep on writing,” does apply sometimes. But I think we, who have experience in such matters, know those times when we see them. We also need a place to write — the proverbial money and a room of one’s own. I might own this Brazilian house, for now, in a … More Peep!
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