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Independence Day5 comments

profacero wrote 1 day ago: This post is being written in real time. There are posts coming up which actually predate it. Rememb … more →

Tags: Banes, News, Resources, Theories, What Is A Scholar?

On Handling Emotional Bullies: Open Thread74 comments

profacero wrote 5 days ago: Much popular advice on handling emotional bullies is misguided, among other ways in that it replicat … more →

Tags: Banes, Resources, Theories

States of Our Fields: Open Thread10 comments

profacero wrote 2 weeks ago: I am still on strike. But Samia recommends Londa Schiebinger, Has Feminism Changed Science? She says … more →

Tags: Resources, bibliography, What Is A Scholar?, Theories

Postscript on Those Ladies. Excursus on Vampires Who Seek Blood, or on Cannibals Who Seek Fresh Meat.17 comments

profacero wrote 3 weeks ago: Qui potest capere, capiat: this post is a bagatelle and footnote to various earlier posts, and I am … more →

Tags: Resources, What Is A Scholar?, Banes, Theories

On "Changing" Higher Education7 comments

profacero wrote 1 month ago: First, an epigraph of sorts from Dr. Crazy, who first answered the question ten of us were asked. He … more →

Tags: Resources, Theories, What Is A Scholar?

Pourquoi je ne suis pas encore partie4 comments

profacero wrote 2 months ago: Many of the posts in this weblog are about feeling stifled, imprisoned, and hemmed in by my professo … more →

Tags: Banes

A Second Heretical Post, a Story, and a Question17 comments

profacero wrote 3 months ago: Heresy In my experience the decorous things to say are that teaching is fun, writing is work, publis … more →

Tags: What Is A Scholar?, Banes, Theories

Global Whiteness20 comments

profacero wrote 3 months ago: Some time ago I taught the novel I am studying now. Its characters are classified by color according … more →

Tags: bibliography

A Heretical Post35 comments

profacero wrote 3 months ago: Writing is fun and publishing is easy. I know it is heresy to say that, so I will repeat it througho … more →

Tags: Banes, Resources, Theories, What Is A Scholar?

Gary Rhoades

profacero wrote 5 months ago: In Change Magazine, there is an article on the academic industrial complex to read and discuss. The … more →

Tags: News, Resources, What Is A Scholar?, Theories

Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Ned Sublette, John Pizer, and the Princeton Review5 comments

profacero wrote 5 months ago: The World That Made New Orleans both delights and instructs. So does John Pizer’s The Idea of … more →

Tags: News, bibliography

Creedence Clearwater Revival 4 comments

profacero wrote 6 months ago: MUSIC TO GRADE BY It is a working weekend, so we will sing work songs! I never paid a great dea … more →

Tags: Songs, What Is A Scholar?, Add new tag

Another Question for English Professors13 comments

profacero wrote 7 months ago: *POOF.* This post was related to my just having been informed by one who should know better that GAB … more →

Tags: What Is A Scholar?, Banes

What Is World Literature?4 comments

profacero wrote 7 months ago: Calling all English professors! Calling all professors of Comparative Literature! I have various gra … more →

Tags: What Is A Scholar?

In Which Grammar Makes Sense2 comments

profacero wrote 7 months ago: I am in late night grading jail. Students who have not studied verb forms fully, but who have unders … more →

On Race and Racism10 comments

profacero wrote 7 months ago: A commentator said in part: “[When I was younger] racism was something I was terrified I would … more →

Bibliographical Methods, Puzzle, and Note5 comments

profacero wrote 7 months ago: A. Bibliographical Methods: A student preparing for his comprehensive examination asked about critic … more →

Tags: Banes, Theories

On Anorexia28 comments

profacero wrote 9 months ago: Here is another labyrinthine post from the olden days. Now I am awake like the Buddha, but a seer at … more →

Tags: Theories

Financial News Question8 comments

profacero wrote 9 months ago: Now the University is offering us the chance to change from private retirement plans to the state sy … more →

Tags: News


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