Werner Sollors
06/10/2013
This is apparently the Sollors book in which the ur-story of plaçage is traced. I need it and I need all the Sollors books. Axé.
Sobre la ironía
06/10/2013
“Don’t be a professor, because it will not be about creating nice lower-division Spanish classes,” I was always told. “I know,” I always said, “that is why I am going on to the Ph.D.” But in my real life, being a professor is largely about doing that, and in poor situations por más señas. The … More Sobre la ironía
Hojas de prensa para la historia de Cuba
05/10/2013
Look at these marvelous images. Here is Villaverde’s wife. Axé.
Memorias del desarrollo
05/10/2013
This is about the film I saw today. Below are some clips from the film itself, which I really liked. Axé.
Present
03/10/2013
This conference is much less than world-shaking, but the venue is beautiful and nearby, so we are here. What I learned by presenting this paper, which ongoing research indicates is not original insofar as others have already made many of my points: these ideas are still new, and controversial to most people. This means that … More Present
The most wonderful profession in the world
02/10/2013
I have found out why a really successful person, professor and chair and also endowed chair in field, now working in construction, quit academia: “Any life would be preferable, including life under a bridge.” I was shocked that this person felt that way, and it was pointed out to me that if it was a … More The most wonderful profession in the world
Traces of the language wars
02/10/2013
I do not have time to write this out but want to remember. Reading a summary of Van Patten’s SLA methodology; realizing how deep it is, and that you have to engage both intellectually and emotionally to use it. The non-native speakers in our program like Van Patten but the native speakers do not, preferring … More Traces of the language wars
On the question of time, and Range of Light
02/10/2013
Now that I have spent 44 days in a non-depressed state — I awoke August 17 to discover it was gone, and knowing it would stay gone, as in fact it has done — I can certify that it is not a question of time. I have more things to do than can be done … More On the question of time, and Range of Light
That introduction to literature
01/10/2013
I Cortázar and “Viaje a la semilla” would be other stories to read; I read these in this course, which shows that it was avant-garde when I took it. I could make this iteration cohesive around a theme: stories of love and death. That would fit, if loosely, for almost all the writers I am … More That introduction to literature
Mexico’s Benjamin
30/09/2013
Here we have an interesting blog and post. It is on Mexico’s Benjamin, and as we know I am trying to understand Benjamin more systematically and even to use texts of his in my history and culture classes that I did not understand, or did not think I understood, before. #Occupy HE. Axé.
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