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Independence Day
This post is being written in real time. There are posts coming up which actually predate it. Remember that this novel is modernist and follows no chronological order. I have declared independence at … more →
Professor Zero
Independence Day
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profacero wrote 1 day ago: This post is being written in real time. There are posts coming up which actually predate it. Rememb … more →
On Handling Emotional Bullies: Open Thread
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profacero wrote 5 days ago: Much popular advice on handling emotional bullies is misguided, among other ways in that it replicat … more →
States of Our Fields: Open Thread
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profacero wrote 2 weeks ago: I am still on strike. But Samia recommends Londa Schiebinger, Has Feminism Changed Science? She says … more →
Postscript on Those Ladies. Excursus on Vampires Who Seek Blood, or on Cannibals Who Seek Fresh Meat.
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profacero wrote 3 weeks ago: Qui potest capere, capiat: this post is a bagatelle and footnote to various earlier posts, and I am … more →
On "Changing" Higher Education
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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 →
Pourquoi je ne suis pas encore partie
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profacero wrote 2 months ago: Many of the posts in this weblog are about feeling stifled, imprisoned, and hemmed in by my professo … more →
A Second Heretical Post, a Story, and a Question
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profacero wrote 3 months ago: Heresy In my experience the decorous things to say are that teaching is fun, writing is work, publis … more →
Global Whiteness
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profacero wrote 3 months ago: Some time ago I taught the novel I am studying now. Its characters are classified by color according … more →
A Heretical Post
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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 →
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 →
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Ned Sublette, John Pizer, and the Princeton Review
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profacero wrote 5 months ago: The World That Made New Orleans both delights and instructs. So does John Pizer’s The Idea of … more →
Creedence Clearwater Revival
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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 →
Another Question for English Professors
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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 →
What Is World Literature?
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profacero wrote 7 months ago: Calling all English professors! Calling all professors of Comparative Literature! I have various gra … more →
In Which Grammar Makes Sense
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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 Racism
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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 Note
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profacero wrote 7 months ago: A. Bibliographical Methods: A student preparing for his comprehensive examination asked about critic … more →
On Anorexia
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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 →
Financial News Question
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profacero wrote 9 months ago: Now the University is offering us the chance to change from private retirement plans to the state sy … more →
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