Rob St. Clair (Ph.D. 2011), Assistant Professor at the College of William & Mary interviewed on the Global Voices™ Journal!
Check out this conversation on his teaching, research interests, and what he's been reading for fun. Follow this link to find out why French poetry is easier than English poetry, how he's had "a number of wonderful ideas that have nearly cost me my life..." Rimbaud's formal subversions, and an argument for why Terry Eagleton should be leisure reading...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
On Language Proficiency
This piece by Stephen Brockmann, professor of German at Carnegie Mellon, from the Chronicle of Higher Education on job candidates' language incompetency. What do you think?
Yes, that’s right: these people had applied for a position as assistant professor of French, but when my colleague in French started interviewing them it quickly became clear that their French left more than a little to be desired. And this even though some of them came to us with recommendation letters talking about their “flawless” French.
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