Posted on 06/02/2004 9:46:33 PM PDT by kattracks
Recently, I wrote an article called “Summer Reading,” which was intended to motivate my readers to take some time to read classic literature over the summer. While mostly apolitical, it did close with the following line, which was deemed offensive by one of my readers: “(Go out and) pick up a great work of classic literature and enjoy the reading. You know, like the kind they used to assign in college when English professors taught English instead of homosexuality and feminism.”
The offended reader, from Ithaca, New York, called my above assertion “sexist, heterosexist, and gratuitous.” So, naturally, I apologized. No, I’m just kidding. Instead of apologizing, I decided to search the webpage of the nearest university English department to see what I could find. Naturally, I went looking first on Cornell.edu. Here is a summary of what I found out about the English faculty at Cornell University:
James Eli is an expert in gender and sexuality.
Frederic Bogel is an expert in critical (that means Marxist) theory.
Mary Pat Brady is an expert in U.S. Latino and Latina literatures and cultures, cultural studies, and American multi-ethnic literatures.
Laura Brown is an expert in feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, and cultural critique.
Cynthia Chase is an expert in women's literature.
Eric Cheyfitz is an expert in federal Indian law.
Barbara Correll is an expert in gender, cultural studies, lesbian, bisexual, and gay literary studies.
Elizabeth DeLoughrey is an expert in feminist theory and women's writing.
Laura Donaldson is an expert in American Indian literature and culture, American Indian women, gender, race and law.
Alice Fulton is an expert in critical (that means Marxist) writing, postmodernism, and feminist theory.
Andrew Galloway is an expert in the sociology of knowledge, and visions of women and women's writings.
Ellis Hanson is an expert in lesbian and gay studies, and psychoanalysis.
Molly Hite is an expert in feminist criticism and theory, and postmodernism.
Mary Jacobus is an expert in feminist literary criticism and theory, and women's writing.
Phyllis Janowitz is an expert in women and literature.
Biodun Jeyifo is an expert in African and Caribbean Anglophone literatures, comparative African and Afro-American critical thought, Marxist literary and cultural theory, and twentieth-century revolutionary social philosophy and literature.
Carol Kaske is an expert in Middle Ages and Renaissance, and cultural history of these periods (especially gender).
Douglas Mao (not to be confused with Chairman Mao) is an expert in gay, lesbian, and bisexual studies.
Kenneth McClane is an expert in African American literature.
Kate McCullough is an expert in women's literature, feminist literary criticism and theory, and lesbian/queer theory.
Dorothy Mermin is an expert in women's poetry.
Satya Mohanty is an expert in critical (that means Marxist) theory.
Timothy Murray is an expert in cultural studies as well as lesbian, bisexual, and gay literary studies.
Mash Raskolnikov is an expert in feminist and queer studies.
Shirley Samuels is an expert in feminist criticism.
Paul Sawyer is an expert in Marxian and feminist approaches and the ways questions of politics and ideology can be related to close local readings.
Hortense Spillers is an expert in the study of aspects of African American and American literature, feminist, Marxist, and more general theories of contemporary criticism.
Shelly Wong is an expert in Asian American, African American, and ethnic literatures as well as Asian Canadian literature and, finally, cultural studies.
William Jefferson Clinton recently gave the commencement address for the Cornell University graduating class of 2004. He is an expert on college interns with thong underwear.
Mike Adams (www.DrAdams.org) is a professor of Elderly Asian Lesbian Criminology. Just kidding. He is actually the author of “Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel.” Signed copies of his book can be ordered on his website.
©2004 Mike S. Adams
I followed the link. The author is not making this up.
I counted 73 profs in the English department. This article notes 28 who provided some description of the area of expertise. I counted 53 profs with some description of their area of expertise.
I was an Engineering student at Cornell from 1979-1983. I don't recall this level of lunacy.
I took my required freshman English courses and never looked back. There were "Black Studies" and "Women's Studies" classes available for me to take as electives, but I chose "Physics", "Chemistry" and "Astronomy" instead.
"...expert in critical (that means Marxist) theory."
I don't follow when you state that critical theory = marxist theory. When did the 2 become the same, and what is marxist theory - communism? What did Plato & Co. do, was it not critical thinking? I really have no degree of expertise in these areas - just curious (George).
I wonder if a bi-sexual would write a book with only semi-colons?
Good for you. Universities have become largely seething hotbeds of cultural depravity and ruins bereft of scholarship. The vast majority of professors are raging leftists and it poisons the atmosphere. Kids just out of highschool have not formed their world view and are very easily indoctrinated. They can't just get thrown to the wolves without some of them getting destroyed.
There must be a list somewhere of conservative colleges and universities not run by the leftist elites.
OMGoodness, that is soooo funny.
I had the misfortune of being a student of one of the professors on this list. Before Hortense Spillers taught at Cornell, she taught where I went to college.
I began college in the fall of 1984. I was assigned to Professor Spillers for freshman English. Professor Spillers would routinely show up at least 20 minutes late to class. Her approach to English was heavily influenced by politics.
We began the semester by reading "Moby Dick." She used the book as a critique of the Reagan administration. She said the main point of the book was that Captain Ahab was leading the crew to destruction, while First Mate Starbuck and the rest of the crew just stood by. In the same way, she argued, we are letting Reagan lead us to nuclear destruction while the rest of us just stand by. She harped on this point repeatedly.
She also gave a required lecture to all 300 freshmen that centered on feminist themes in Moby Dick. There's not a significant female character in the entire book, of course, but that didn't stop Professor Spillers. She pointed out that the sea was a feminine symbol, and the men had to go down to the sea to get the whales. They therefore were getting in touch with their feminine natures. Well, that's one explanation, I suppose.
On election day in 1984, Reagan trounced Mondale. Spillers wandered into class in a sad mood. She asked the students to think about what it means when people say that young people today are of a conservative generation. In deep sadness, she cancelled class and left. Never mind how much we were paying to take her class.
In a sane world, Professor Spillers would have been barred from ever teaching a class again. But in the world of academia, she was apparently welcomed into the ivy league.
Lest anyone thinks this is sour grapes, Professor Spillers gave me a fair grade. (I think I got a B minus, which was probably generous given my lazy freshman ways.) However, she robbed me and my parents of hard-earned money with her incompetent teaching.
"Critical theory" refers specifically to the brand of marxism promulgated by the likes of Marcuse, Gramsci and Adorno. As opposed to social-scientific or literary theories which aim to study things "as is," critical theory is done specifically with the goal of social change in mind. And yes, it has become the dominant paradigm in most departments.
"...it has become the dominant paradigm in most departments."
Interesting - being a Finance & Accounting type I've not kept current with how the English Depts. at various universities have evolved. Neither of my sons (recent college grads - 5 years or less) never mentioned any conversations that even approach what apparently goes on at Cornell. I'm not even sure Cornell can be used as a template for all universities, such generalizations don't usually hold true under closer examination.
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I think some of them developed written versions of their own languages - but only after they'd seen it done by European colonists.
city of evil BTTT
What, exactly, is an expert in visions of women?
I open the floor for discussion. < heh heh >
Semi-colons and the SHIFT key....
Uhm...the gay agenda is in place. There's nothing left to defeat. Maybe it's time to joust at different windmills.
Uhm...the gay agenda is in place. There's nothing left to defeat.
Yeah? Don't be too sure...
Maybe it's time to joust at different windmills.
You take care of your windmills and I'll take care of mine.
This ridiculous debasement of an English department is just par for the course these days in academia. However, I can predict that a much more insidious anti-Semitism (the Nazi kind) centered in these universities is just around the corner (following another 9-11 style attack or a heated outbreak between the Israelis and arabs). When the full "Stockholm syndrome" + crypto-Communist agenda takes hold, the academic world will switch into classic Jew-hating as their number one obsession, just like what is happening today in Europe. The ultimate war against the Islamofacists is going to look very much like WWII in this regard.
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