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>The Individual Approach in Teaching
> Because I’m a sucker for punishment (a.k.a a very responsible educator dedicated to the intellectual well-being of her students), I allow students in my literature courses to send me rough drafts...
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>Confused and Cautiously Optimistic
> OK, I don’t know what’s going on here, but I’m grading final essays in my literature course, and five essays in a row are just brilliant. I was dreading this round of grading because I fully...
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Romantic or Not?
So here is a story for you. A man and a woman get married after a very long engagement. She can’t get pregnant for a while, and the husband gets distraught because he needs to have a child to prove his...
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>What Melibea and Lazarillo Have in Common
> I know that those of my readers who are not Hispanists must be sick and tired of this kind of posts, but I have only four final essays more to grade, and then I promise that no more posts like...
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>Just One More (Sorry!)
> I thought we had reached the pinnacle of stupidity with Melibea prostituting herself to feed her father. But no, the real culmination to the course has been reached in another essay which informed...
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Fighting Plagiarism in the Classroom Is Un-American
Some holier-than-thou professor hates anti-plagiarism software so much that he practically accuses academics who use it of high treason: I inherently trust my students and do not instantly suspect them...
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Perfect People and a Sense of Humor
So yesterday we finished watching the movie Nine Queens in the two sections of my language course. One of the sections enjoyed the film. People laughed, one student clapped, another student made...
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What’s Up With These Students?
My Advanced Spanish students are very special. There is a lot of grammar in the course, which always makes me feel apologetic. “I’m sorry for all these grammar activities,” I told them. “I know they...
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Where I Fail As a Teacher
I’m a very good teacher but I’m far from perfect. There is a lot of room for improvement in my teaching. One thing that I consistently fail at is mixing students up as often as I should. In a language...
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From the Life of a Fanatic
Cliff Arroyo made an interesting comment (because his comments always rule) that made me remember a funny story from my past as an undergraduate student: I once had a supposed advanced intro-ish...
View Article>Trivialization of Literary Studies
What I hate the most about today’s language and literature departments is how easily they believe in their own irrelevance and how apologetic they are inclined to feel about their own existence. While...
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