Student I Insisted Go To A Larger Graduate Program Than Ours: Dear Professor Zero, This is just to say my new university is not as scary as I thought it would be. My students listen to me! My professors know you! I find I am already familiar with the books and reading lists! I guess … More From the File
This is golden right here, y’all: Robert Pete Williams. He went to jail. Back in the day I dated a Cajun. I mean a real Cajun from Pont Breaux. We would go up to Lafayette to go canoeing, and on to Opelousas. There we went dancing at Slim’s Y-Ki-Ki, and stood in the back of … More Robert Pete Williams
In Change Magazine, there is an article on the academic industrial complex to read and discuss. The piece begins by showing how the Carnegie Foundation and the AAUP shaped academia in the 20th century. Together, these two entities created a national, mobile professoriate (see also the discussion of Carnegie units and credit hours), a professoriate … More Gary Rhoades
On teaching, via A Gentleman’s C. Here comes more classic Branford, but do not fail to click on that link. Axé.
ERRORS OF MY WAYS/JOB DESCRIPTION What my job ideal description was and is: Active, fast-paced career in large, urban, research oriented, policy making institution, involving national and international partners. Find documents, analyze and discuss them, discover their role in the national and international imaginary. Make decisions, write reports. Organize research groups. Write books alone and … More What Is A Scholar? or, Primordial River. Original Groove
Servetus says being a scholar … * is about having a question or questions you need to answer. Not want, need to answer. For you or for the world. Not for your tenure committee or to fill out your vita. To inform the world. To change the world. To find the truth. Your truth, whether … More Stolen from Servetus
MUSIC TO GRADE BY It is a working weekend, so we will sing work songs! I never paid a great deal of attention to the Creedence Clearwater Revival but I associate them with California because when I was a child, they were on all the radios. As a result of this they are the soundtrack … More Creedence Clearwater Revival
This video is marvelous and wild, and I would love to hear your comments on its discourse and ways of constructing its object. Axé.
Now we will take notes on Christina Crosby, “Writer’s Block, Merit, and the Market: Working in the University of Excellence,” College English 65:6 (July 2003): 626-645. Perhaps I shall cross post these notes at my seminar. * Why do professors have trouble writing, and suffer with it? * Because by writing they enter into a … More Christina Crosby
At Thanksgiving Maman, meaning Grandmother, made comments in French about the sillier of the grandchildren, who voted for McCain. Grandmother is a nice white lady from the bad old days. She is convinced those days would have returned had we not voted for Barack. * It was in the late eighties that I became a … More C’est si simple
