Assistant Professor
Yeah, but look at that picture!
That looks like a picture of a serial killer if ever I saw one.
Wow! Plenty of gobbledgoop jargon in those resumes. A few of them seemed grounded, though. This one in particular:
Bob Hicok
Assistant Professor
I write poems and stories. I have little faith or interest in my thoughts on writing. Those who do a thing are often too close to be perceptive commentators, particularly where love is involved. I love writing, maybe most of all because it doesn’t matter, because poems don’t lift bridges or make refrigerators shinier. The nakedness of the endeavor—just one person, sitting at a desk, trying to express something they feel in a way that will allow others into their mind—may be among the most human things we do. We are the mouths of the world, and through poetry we speak.
Yeah, but look at that picture!
That looks like a picture of a serial killer if ever I saw one.
Some of it sounds interesting to me....when I was an English faculty, I was interested in how students develop metacognitive strategies which allow them to gather the information, study, and decide how to communicate what they do in writing. Good students have fine metacognitive approaches, and poor students don’t. It’s not formally taught, usually, and if one could enhance the ability of students to do it better, one would enhance their performance.
It sounds like gobbley-goop to the uninitiated, though.
I am now about 15 years behind the academic trends, though. English instruction has its fad cycles, just like everything else.
Their faculty, IMHO is truly weak on the stuff that produces great literature, I believe, though, because it’s not in, or pc right now, and that’s the great dead white men who wrote wonderfully well.