Tag: academia
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Reading Notes: Why Love Hurts by Eva Illouz
I’ve been slowly progressing through this remarkable book over the last couple of years. As an academic work that spans several fields–sociology, economic theory, culture studies, and literary theory (with a smattering of psychoanalysis)–it is fairly dense. So I’ve been picking it up here and there, reading a chapter and then letting it sit for…
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I quit my job once and I want you to know about it
or Some Reflections Provoked by #QuitLit — Six years ago I found myself living in an idyllic midwestern college town, working anywhere from three to five jobs at a time. Here is a list of what my BA in French/comparative literature and recently completed MA in African Languages & Literature qualified me to do: serve coffee, sell books, rent…
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keita, the canon, and what the hell does “interdisciplinary” mean anyway?
[Disclaimer: this post is not “finished” in any sense. I wanted to publish it, because I think that it deals with some of the underlying threads we should consider as the battle between the legitimacy of the humanities and the bottom lines of the administration continues to wage throughout the country. But I really, really,…
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teach standing up
When I began my current doctoral program, I was told that a good-looking CV has four conference papers, three articles, a wide range of teaching experience, and a couple of research grants. If that seems a little outlandish to you, that’s because it is. Who has the time? Because of my teaching load, not only…
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