I should write an article for Academe on this. People in their effort to be kind to the NTT are ending up speaking ill of their fields. A fundamental point, perhaps, is that people, including alleged progressives and union members, forget that tenure is about INTEGRITY. The AAUP says academic freedom and shared governance but … More On the value of the PhD and tenure
TRANSLATIONa huevo: to be aggressively seduced by an eggay diosito: the small god you thank because your hands existme hicieron ojo: my eyelashes flew one by one like a longing!señora studies: look, a map in the dirt of your mother’s hurtsempacho: you ate cactus until you burst open like a rotten fruittacos de cabeza: quandaries … More TRANSLATION (poem)
I worked for hours on a draft that got lost due to some Internet freeze I don’t understand. It’s a short memo and a lot of notes. I want to send ISP’s piece on saving the humanities to leadership, to accompany the other piece and my other request. It offers a different and more hopeful … More Lost post
…our toxic department? It’s not that students are losing interest in the field, it’s that we are alienating them because the toxicity is so evident. What is needed? Graduate students. Faculty should not gossip about students to other students. Sharing good news, or giving information about opportunities others have taken and that are still available, … More What would it take to heal
This is important and revealing, as it shows why I am and have been so traumatized by “cajunismo.” I waver between understanding that this happened, and it’s common, and I withstood it better than many, and thinking I should have found a way to reject it, see what was happening, and start batting on my … More The academic power and control wheel
My department here moved to an old, marginally maintained mansion it had reclaimed from use as graduate student rentals. To celebrate the move, and I think we were living there as well, it announced a party but did not tell anyone it was not providing food, drink, or music. Arriving guests were nonplussed. Then everybody … More Dream
Discrimination exists. I started a card for an outgoing administrator who had been a breath of fresh air and all who signed were either instructors or professors of color. This caused me to see more clearly why the person had been refreshing. It was what they didn’t do. If it isn’t the non-discrimination, the instructors … More Discrimination exists
In The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, I show how two anti-feminist tactics often work in tandem, the minimisation of harm and the inflation of power. I wrote then, “Even to identify something as harmful is treated as an attempt to exercise or to hold power over someone, as if feminists make slights bigger than they are … More Sarah Ahmed
It is on Archive.org. I want it. It’s streamable too, from Amazon and Apple. I will have to see about this. Axé.
…is that they put hiring research faculty in Spanish, and revitalizing Spanish, in the strategic plan. Reasons are to stabilize the department (strong Spanish will do that), but also to serve the needs of the state and the region (if we don’t have the major and a path to an M.A., only LSU and Tulane … More What I am asking
