Looking through files I found this letter I wrote to the MLA in response to their offer of help for Katrina-ridden faculty. Dear Professors Feal and Stanton, I am pleased to see that the MLA is extending material support to faculty displaced by Hurricane Katrina. I write to suggest that the existence of such support … More September 17, 2005
The student sitting next to me is writing his paper in Lyx. I have stopped for coffee on the way home to take note of the discussion of historical reenactments I heard on WWNO as I drove upriver. What history is it considered palatable to reenact and what is not? Why do people want to reenact … More Stopping by woods: exciting news of Buffalo Bill
He is available online in the Biblioteca Cervantes Virtual, fortunately. I must read this chapter in detail. Axé.
They are apparently a myth. What will people say when they find out? Axé.
Here is part of the MLA proposal I had just written when I lost my way in life a second or third time. But early April 2004, still in Lent, was the last time I was able to concentrate as I am now. I was so happy to be working again and although I did … More On starting where one left off, this time much stronger.
Here they are. Axé.
Literary histories were created in the nineteenth century as part of the nation-formation process but did literary works produced in this period really participate in that in such a self-aware way? What if some of them work against it — intentionally or not? Also, literature is taught to teach language and culture, but also aesthetics, … More What are literary studies?
It is so cold, dry, and bright in New Orleans that one could be in Castile. The old quarter was rebuilt by Spain after a fire in the eighteenth century and it is all just so Spanish. Nobody has commented on my changing blog scene. The present picture is not as rich as the one … More Le samedi
The colleague I am losing, and who is my only colleague, and who will not be replaced, has now edited my project description and he is very intelligent. (As people working on the literature and history of Hispanic world, which is of course a very large part of the whole world, we are “in a … More El reporte para el writing group
The first cinema novo film. Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 