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That Job Market: Suggestions for Interviewees
It is October 15, the traditional opening day of the job search season. I have a few suggestions for people going on campus visits — suggestions others may not have covered yet. 1. Good faciliti… more →
Professor Zero
That Job Market: Suggestions for Interviewees
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profacero wrote 3 weeks ago: It is October 15, the traditional opening day of the job search season. I have a few suggestions for … more →
Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Mercè Rodoreda
profacero wrote 3 weeks ago: Any time is a good time to read Mercè Rodoreda. The Nation’s review article on her is worth re … more →
Research Hours
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profacero wrote 3 weeks ago: Tnis is one of those old-old posts. ON CERTAIN FALSITIES Perhaps it is for no reason related to me t … more →
Gabo
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profacero wrote 1 month ago: It appears that the eternal foodstuffs of artistic achievement are “discipline, fortitude, amb … more →
The Triple Day
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profacero wrote 1 month ago: This is just one of Historiann’s interesting posts on women and academia. When I was in elemen … more →
On Getting By
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profacero wrote 2 months ago: With some effort — not inordinate effort, mind you, but some — I have put together a two … more →
The Textbook Industrial Complex, or, The Baroque Era
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profacero wrote 2 months ago: In my foreign language class we have a thick textbook, a workbook, a lab manual, three websites, CDs … more →
On Not Following Recommendations
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profacero wrote 3 months ago: The best day so far in Madrid was Wednesday, when I did not do anything recommended (e.g. stand in l … more →
S/M or Torture 101
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profacero wrote 3 months ago: A: How unfair! I have gone through all of these contortions just because you asked, and now I am as … more →
Voice Four
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profacero wrote 3 months ago: Now I might really be over Reeducation, which was that in part because it involved not only becoming … more →
A. B. C. D. Errata. Footnotes.
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profacero wrote 3 months ago: A A major difference between myself and the persons I am expected to resemble appears to be that the … more →
Beam Me Up
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profacero wrote 3 months ago: Despite all of my railings against the Twelve Stoners, despite my not wanting to visit their meeting … more →
Voice Two
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: At one irrational level I continue to believe that having access to a powerful self hurts those who … more →
Voice One
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: This new series of posts on voice is intended in part to work out some more ideas for my article on … more →
Independence Day
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: This post is being written in real time. There are posts coming up which actually predate it. Rememb … more →
How Was It for You? Terrible! And for You?
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: I keep saying I have vanquished Reeducation but it is never quite true. Now, however, I think I have … more →
On Handling Emotional Bullies: Open Thread
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: Much popular advice on handling emotional bullies is misguided, among other ways in that it replicat … more →
The Legal History Blog
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: I used to have a recurring dream in which I called my mother from my office at Yale University, hold … more →
States of Our Fields: Open Thread
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profacero wrote 4 months ago: I am still on strike. But Samia recommends Londa Schiebinger, Has Feminism Changed Science? She says … more →
