We have 3 research faculty with PhDs and 5 instructors with MAs, and we give 68 regular courses per year. PhDs make on average $50K, and instructors on average $40K, so we have $350K in salary among us. We are all on the machine-run budget, i.e. on hard money lines, not soft money (the adjunct … More What we could do to contribute to solving the “adjunct crisis”
New corrections to both versions of vitae. Application letter and packet; deliver this. One more letter of recommendation. Library. Store, on those bookends. Software appointment for office machine and this one. Jerry. Syllabi: 1, 2, 3. Oil change; computer to Joanna. When I finish these things I might go to town, to the silversmith; I … More Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Here is my LASA proposal: Race Beyond Exceptionalism Mestizaje is a key justification of cultural exceptionalism in Latin America. As foundational myth it has often served to limit the analysis of race and racisms, in the social sciences as well as the literary field. Is it possible to consider questions of race, or race and … More The Menu
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About this: should we rethink the language requirement? Here is why I ask: the options, for action on the “adjunct crisis,” appear to be cutting the number of students allowed to finish graduate programs, so as to reduce the alleged overproduction of Ph.D.s, or making sure people who do the Ph.D. are also trained for … More Should we recast the language requirement?
Be·m plai longa nuegz escura E·l temps d’ivern on plus dura, E no m’en lais per freidura Qu’ieu leials gaita no sia Tota via, Per tal que segurs estia Fins drutz, quan pren jauzimen De domna valen, Del ser tro en l’alba. I woke up thinking that if one can cast off the lack of … More Aubade
A book I used used long ago in Spanish 202 is now being used in Spanish 431. It could mean that the quality of our language program has decreased sharply, or that this faculty member is not very demanding. It explains why the students found my Spanish 432 so difficult last year, though. What book … More Too hot for Facebook
I woke up noticing that a large part of the anxiety and precarity is financial. I should do yoga and meditate so that I recognize this when it comes up and set it aside. How to increase income: promotion. The rest of it is the self-care issue which is really the self-love issue, as we … More Dimanche matin
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I woke up thinking the sheets were comfortable and the sun was out again, and that a week on the beach doing nothing was all I needed. I never have such excursions since the cost is that of a conference or a month in Mexico or a week visiting family, and seems utterly extravagant since … More The morning revelation
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