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----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Glass" <goliard@worldnet.att.net>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (45
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> Anyone who thinks that publishing with an eye toward the promotions
> committee is a practical life-startegy in the humanities ought to get
hold
> of and pour over 'Droves of Academe', by Tom McGervan and Rebecca
Traister,
> a piece about the recent MLA convention in New York. which appeared on the
> front page of the Jan 6 issue of the __New York Observer__ . All the sad,
> hang-dog about-to-be docs and post-docs leaving off piles of raw
> dissertations in front of publishers booths.
>
> So if you want to write about imaginative literature, you might as well
> 'follow your bliss' (or your flutterby) an activity to which reading and
> discussing the works of the Bird of Paradise makes a significant
> contribution.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: D. Barton Johnson <chtodel@cox.net>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:08 PM
> Subject: VN Projects: Susan Sweeey
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
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> > > I am completing an essay, entitled "Executing Sentences in LOLITA and
> the
> > Law," which will be published along with other interdisciplinary
> > explorations of the law by participants in a National Endowment for the
> > Humanities seminar that I attended last summer.
> > >
> > > Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> > > Associate Professor of English
> > > Holy Cross College
> > >
> > > >>> chtodel@cox.net 01/08/03 13:12 PM >>>
> > > WHY O WHY are people so reluctant to send in citations of their
> > publications and items-in-press?
> > > Likewise--- their current Nabokov projects?
> > >
> > > One of the reasons for establishing NABOKV-L ten-odd years ago was to
> keep
> > Nabokov scholars aware of who was doing what. Do we research and write
> > solely to give promotion committees somethng to weigh or for the
> > satisfaction and pleasure of sharing what we dig up.
> >
>
From: "Arthur Glass" <goliard@worldnet.att.net>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (45
lines) ------------------
> Anyone who thinks that publishing with an eye toward the promotions
> committee is a practical life-startegy in the humanities ought to get
hold
> of and pour over 'Droves of Academe', by Tom McGervan and Rebecca
Traister,
> a piece about the recent MLA convention in New York. which appeared on the
> front page of the Jan 6 issue of the __New York Observer__ . All the sad,
> hang-dog about-to-be docs and post-docs leaving off piles of raw
> dissertations in front of publishers booths.
>
> So if you want to write about imaginative literature, you might as well
> 'follow your bliss' (or your flutterby) an activity to which reading and
> discussing the works of the Bird of Paradise makes a significant
> contribution.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: D. Barton Johnson <chtodel@cox.net>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:08 PM
> Subject: VN Projects: Susan Sweeey
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (11
> > lines) ------------------
> > > I am completing an essay, entitled "Executing Sentences in LOLITA and
> the
> > Law," which will be published along with other interdisciplinary
> > explorations of the law by participants in a National Endowment for the
> > Humanities seminar that I attended last summer.
> > >
> > > Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> > > Associate Professor of English
> > > Holy Cross College
> > >
> > > >>> chtodel@cox.net 01/08/03 13:12 PM >>>
> > > WHY O WHY are people so reluctant to send in citations of their
> > publications and items-in-press?
> > > Likewise--- their current Nabokov projects?
> > >
> > > One of the reasons for establishing NABOKV-L ten-odd years ago was to
> keep
> > Nabokov scholars aware of who was doing what. Do we research and write
> > solely to give promotion committees somethng to weigh or for the
> > satisfaction and pleasure of sharing what we dig up.
> >
>