Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College | Early + C19 American Literature | Political Economy of Slavery | Literary Form | Sensory Perception
leaving aside all the guns for a moment, there is nothing more depressing than the suburban basement. a bar, pool table, arcade games--all the markers of a vibrant sociality, hidden away underground in the single family home. a space of profound social isolation
the more i teach the more i am convinced that the only thing that separates the "smart" students from everyone else is whether or not they think the material is cool
many have been asking me why economics is not a real discipline. it is not a real discipline because it hasn't properly historicized it's own methods of knowledge production. this was made clear by the economist who hadn't read marx or smith.
Randomly reminded of the experience of telling a, say, history student you study economics and their utter surprise at the fact that you haven't worked through Smith and Marx.
Pitched a startup I couldn't get out of my head to my most cracked friend.
Within 3 days he dropped out of uni, broke up with his gf, quit his job, and moved to the US.
We just got a flat together in SF and are now working 24/7 to realize this vision.
It's an issue that slows
i served as an editor for an academic journal for 5 years. sometimes it was astonishing the assumptions that reviewers would make about the authors. they were almost always wrong
As a reviewer, it is obvious when something is written by a brand new grad student and very obvious when it is their first paper submission ever. Really heavy on the jargon and misuse of GRE words. The writing is floral without fragrance. (1/2)
