I am mortally offended and in touch with many years of anger. I see who and what I am dealing with. I am not sure what to do. Two have resigned, and four are considering it. Ride it out, says another colleague. Perhaps, but the big change for me is that I see we are … More …with a wild surmise
…it seemed that if we could only decide who Vallejo was we might know what his poems mean. Was this so and if it was, were we just falling prey to some form of the intentional fallacy? Not necessarily. It was that these poems were coming from a uneven, multi-leveled and multilayered collage of contexts, only some of … More Vallejo, el extranjero
De la musique, pour le weekend que l’on a passé. Axé.
Many today do not recognize the word, but “philology” was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as religion, history, culture, art, archaeology, and more. In short, philology was the … More Sobre la filología
Today I was supposed to be participating in a Saturday service activity I abhor but had steeled myself for. Last night, however, I felt ill for unrelated reasons and e-mailed my dean, who organizes this activity, apologizing and saying I would have to go to the clinic this morning instead of the service activity. I … More Dream
Dear Z, Now that I have seen the madre patria I have a different and deeper understanding of you. I have much to recount, but I am distracted by the beauty of this place. — and I have spent a truly glorious day after the interview in — and later in —. We stopped for drinks … More An e-mail I received
This is the other reason for my general fatigue and mental fog; I keep forgetting that we undergo all this bullying every day. In extremely clear instances of it I get flashes of insight, this is paradigmatically abusive behavior, but most of the time it is just how people are and I do not understand … More Male violence
— direct method or versions of it: not rule then application, but example then explanation then expansion — emphasis on conversation, being able to converse; spontanaeity — emphasis on writing whole sentences — not fixated enough on accent marks, spelling, small grammar issues: yes, they irritate me, but no, not seriously — too intolerant of … More Things wrong with me as FL teacher
People do not realize that many decades ago at Berkeley they decided freshman composition should also be given by (many) departments other than English. They have it in Rhetoric, Dramatic Art, Comparative Literature, and now all of these departments. This means that English is more immune to being asked to staff these courses with adjuncts, … More On the adjunct crisis
One of these is needed. Axé.
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