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  • My one complaint about the Curatorial Departments is that the images available for viewing are displayed as REALLY SMALL thumbnails.

    Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: The Louvre 2007

  • My one complaint about the Curatorial Departments is that the images available for viewing are displayed as REALLY SMALL thumbnails.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • It's rare that we find ourselves to be outpaced by Philosophy and Classics in the creation of audiences -- and by our friends in English Departments too!

    Archive 2008-06-01 Tenured Radical 2008

  • This incident has particular repercussions for those of us in the education field -- yes, particularly those of us in English Departments, and even more, those who teach creative writing.

    A Blow on a Bruise K. A. Laity 2007

  • Inside Higher Ed has an interesting article on forthcoming recommendations from the Modern Language Association to change the way tenure is awarded in English Departments, A Tenure Reform Plan With Legs:

    Changing Tenure 2006

  • Only within Departments of English (or at MLA sessions) is a "contestatory" utterance seen as a roofbeam thrown on the barricades.

    Shelley, Adorno, and the Scandal of Commited Art 2001

  • WHEREAS the rapid demobilization of personnel of the War and Navy Departments is resulting in the abandonment or placing in caretaker status of these facilities and

    EXECUTIVE ORDER 9797 1946

  • The last of the five Departments is the Control Yuan.

    China and the Foreign Powers 1930

  • This kind of thing is hardly unusual in English Departments, where from experience I can assure you that, for many faculty members, having spent time buried in minutia of, say, the semiotics of clothing in Renaissance depictions of hangings, is somehow grounds to pontificate on contemporary politics as if these highly specialized scholars were members of Queen Elizabeth's inner circle.

    protein wisdom 2008

  • This kind of thing is hardly unusual in English Departments, where from experience I can assure you that, for many faculty members, having spent time buried in minutia of, say, the semiotics of clothing in Renaissance depictions of hangings, is somehow grounds to pontificate on contemporary politics as if these highly specialized scholars were members of Queen Elizabeth's inner circle.

    protein wisdom 2008

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