(okay, so possibly I am still stewing over my most recent batch of evaluations ( Read more... )

Dear students ( Read more... )

Grading time again--papers this time. It's not helping that I'm really tired, and that I just want to curl up in bed with a mug of tea on my nightstand and maybe that biography of Bess Throckmorton I started earlier in the week ( Read more... )

(I often think that a reading group with Pamela Dean's Tam Lin as the starting point, and then followed by some of the texts that get read or referenced, would be a fun time. Maybe it's just that I found myself reading Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Revenger's Tragedy in very short succession this term ( Read more... )

Is it wrong of me to expect the Friday sections to turn in response papers that day when the midterm paper is due as well? These response papers are meant to be two paragraphs maximum, and are not graded; their only purpose is to make sure that students will come to class prepared to talk about something. But the TF who teaches Friday sections has ( Read more... )

That even if the professor gives the wrong page numbers for the British Baronetage and rulers section of the Norton (the students are going to be required to memorize the kings and queens of England through Charles II), students could be trusted to look in the table of contents and find the correct page numbers--rather than, say, emailing me, as ( Read more... )

First, that Chaucer did not write Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

(I'm reading over response papers from this week's section. I honestly have no idea how this particular mistake was made, since we didn't start Chaucer until after Sir GawainI'm worried about these responses, because according to the class policy, they're supposed to be very ( Read more... )