"Rock In A Hat," Or "How Everyone Gets It Wrong"
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I'm sure Bill is a wonderful guy and would be a wonderful student in one of your classics classes.
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Um, OK.Bought Yahoo wrote: ↑Sat Jan 02, 2021 8:51 pmI'm sure Bill is a wonderful guy and would be a wonderful student in one of your classics classes.
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I have said before that I wished I could have been a professor of classics. When I read Paradise Lost and Inferno I am hopelessly lost and feel stupid.
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Being a professor these days isn't all it once was. For one thing, academia has changed quite a bit, and not for the better. But you already know that. When I got into this profession, my idea of it was way behind the times. I had a silly, romanticized, and altogether inaccurate view of what it would be to be a professor of Classics. If I could move to a different discipline at this point, I might do it. It is not that I feel any different about the material. The subject matter is wonderful. What I don't care so much for is the politics of the field. I am trying to hang on, publishing where possible, and then checking out as soon as I can retire. Academia pretty much blows chunks these days.Bought Yahoo wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:45 amI have said before that I wished I could have been a professor of classics. When I read Paradise Lost and Inferno I am hopelessly lost and feel stupid.
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I'd like to see a book about Paradise Lost for persons unfamilar with classical references.
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Ok, but it'll be short. Man came to earth, wrecked it and lost Paradise.Bought Yahoo wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:50 pmI'd like to see a book about Paradise Lost for persons unfamilar with classical references.
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I’m pretty bummed about online teaching right now, but on the whole I’m still very happy to have this job. It’s about what I hoped it would be during all the years I tried to land it.Kishkumen wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:05 pmBeing a professor these days isn't all it once was. For one thing, academia has changed quite a bit, and not for the better. But you already know that. When I got into this profession, my idea of it was way behind the times. I had a silly, romanticized, and altogether inaccurate view of what it would be to be a professor of Classics. If I could move to a different discipline at this point, I might do it. It is not that I feel any different about the material. The subject matter is wonderful. What I don't care so much for is the politics of the field. I am trying to hang on, publishing where possible, and then checking out as soon as I can retire. Academia pretty much blows chunks these days.
As far as politics in the field goes, it can be frustrating that getting published in the top-ranked journals often seems to require following trends. But you can get reasonable work published in a reasonable journal even if you’re following a different drummer, I think. So it’s not too bad.
I’ve sometimes wondered whether the larger units of publication in the humanities—books rather than our quite short papers—might make publication more political. A book has more to which someone might object while a paper is small enough that people are more willing to let you have it.
Or is it something else?
I was a teenager before it was cool.