People I will not fail to be in touch with are Chérie, José, Lee, and Rey … and I will check them off in this post as I find them. I will also be in touch with the library at Tulane University, despite voyaging in the opposite direction. I have to say this here so … More Esta semana
I used to have one of these. It was a box with index cards on which I would note my excess ideas while writing. I would just throw them in there and then later, when stuck, choose one at random to start me going again, or on break, look at them all to see what … More Pensieve
I just signed up for the MLA Subconference, and so should you. Axé.
I like my abstract better than anything longer I have written on this matter. Taking as its point of departure not only the poetic subject in Vallejo as primordially fractured but the intimations in his prose works that like his contemporary J. L. Borges (“La nadería de la personalidad,” 1925) he eschewed the idea of … More Reading Vallejo Against the Grain of Identity
I rarely get to do it but today I was up at six, got ready and worked until one-thirty, went to lunch until five-thirty, went home and rested, and now I am going back to the office, where I plan to stay until midnight. This will have been a total of about ten hours of … More That Mediterranean schedule
I have an in person writing group for the first time since graduate school. Here is our plan. Immediate goal: each have at least two scholarly articles (or one for R. and 3 for Z.) under consideration by 12/1/2016. Ultimate goal: have a steady stream of articles (R.) and book (Z.) coming; both apply for … More Writing group
Here is a book I would like to read. I am dying for research time and I am guessing that in order to get it, you have to really want it. Perhaps I am coming close to this. Axé.
Preamble to comment on strategic plan: I notice a language drift in the university. The intranet no longer calls faculty faculty, but says employee. At the same time, I keep hearing mid level administrators refer to faculty as “teachers.” It is as though faculty as a category were being eliminated. That is one of the … More Je ne le dirai pas
If I could run these language courses in a way that would work for me and the students, I would: 1/ Walk in with review and warm-up questions (5 minutes) 2/ Go over homework (5 minutes) 3/ Have a short quiz (5 minutes) 4/ Introduce a new reading / vocabulary theme / grammatical structure (depending … More Si yo pudiera…
La colocación en la Rectoría de la UNAM de una persona fiel al actual proyecto de autoritarismo neoliberal es de suma importancia para el régimen. Una Universidad Nacional verdaderamente democrática, participativa y plural rápidamente se convertiría en una enorme piedra en el zapato para la clase política dominante. Desde la perspectiva de Peña Nieto, urge … More También sucede en México
