I learned from Vanessa Nelsen that Creole costumbrista authors putatively intent on demonstrating social realism pulled characters not from reality, but from a historiographical discourse that they themselves had already created. Does Nelsen know that one of the lettered discourses masquerading as reality is the plaçage myth? It is all quite interesting because the way Emily Clark says … More Shocking new facts about Villaverde
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Latin Wave 8, May 2-5. Axé.
That LaBlanca Dapper One-Piece Striped Maillot is now out in size 6 and more sizes are sure to go. I should not buy a thing but it fits and I wonder, should I take one before my size is out? I was hoping to get one at an end of summer sale, but there may … More Resisting consumerism, or, I will fill my tooth
From the Spanish Professor. Axé.
On the Value of an Independent Faculty Senate The rhetorical sleight of hand used in the attempt to discredit AAUP principles on academic freedom and tenure as well as to justify the marginalization of faculty senates resembles that used to discredit traditional university education and promote for-profit institutions and MOOCs. As academic blogger Undine indicates … More How inflammatory is this?
It is from 1940. I am told that it therefore: (a) lacks modernity (it is old, so it must be antiquated), (b) is unnecessary (we all believe in these principles, so there is no need to write them down), and at the same time (c) is unaffordable (back in the thriving economy of the 1930s … More That statement of principles on academic freedom and tenure
Here is another book we do not have, and that costs $100 to buy. I have La expresión americana somewhere and should seriously read it. Axé.
They want us to “flip” our classrooms. This would mean writing lectures, practicing them, dressing for them, and videotaping them to put online. 1. I do not lecture and to the extent that I do, it works in person. If lectures are bad to begin with, I do not see why I should start giving … More Flippant
Remember, if I publish one to five paragraphs like this locally, everyone will know to which meetings I refer and of whom I speak. Current paragraph one: The rhetorical sleight of hand used in the attempt to discredit AAUP principles on academic freedom and tenure as well as to justify the marginalization of faculty senates … More Watch my tone
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