¡Bemsha SWING!: Profe

31 may 2011

Profe

I give my undergraduate students two options. They can call me "profesor" or "profesor Mayhew," or simply "profe." That gives them an informal option that still recognizes what our relationship is. If they call me by my first name I don't actually correct them, because I don't really care all that much. Instead, I usually announce my preferred form of address at the beginning of the course. That way I get fewer "Jonathans" and "Doctor Mayhews" the rest of the semester.

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Zed dijo...: I've come to be conscious of the drawbacks of the "professor" terminology lately. As an undergrad I'd address my professors as "Prof. Lastname" and refer to them as "Lastname" in conversation (no one uses titles when talking about people behind their backs); as soon as I graduated I was expected to be on first-name terms w/ all of them. Which has always felt weird and stilted, because one never _thought_ of them as having first names, and has (on the margin) made me less likely to keep in touch with them. Which is probably just fine from their POV...; 12:58 p. m.
Jonathan dijo...: i remember going to a prestigious graduate school and all of sudden having to call my professors by their first names. It felt awkward, but since all my classmates were doing it, I would have felt awkward either way. It was a false egalitarianism because the distance was enormous in actual fact. I let my grad students call me professor until I know them pretty well and then I tell them to use my first name. If they want to go to first name basis sooner I don't object.; 1:12 p. m.
Clarissa dijo...: I always addressed all of my professors as Profesor/a and Usted. In my culture, it's unconscionable that you address adults who are not immediate family members with their first name and the "tu" form. My mother never used the "tu" form to her best friend of many years.; 2:05 p. m.
Andrew Shields dijo...: My son Miles was very put off by the moment when his kindergarten teacher told him that he could call her "Christine" once she was no longer his teacher (instead of "Frau Deschamps").; 2:53 p. m.
Professor Zero dijo...: What I truly hate is their insistence on calling me "Mrs." and also "teacher."

"Please help me, Mrs. Teacher."; 2:09 p. m.

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Blurbs & Reviews

"Jonathan Mayhew’s new work belongs to a certain class of surprising books: those so obviously necessary once they appear that it apparently required a stroke of genius to come up with the idea for them."

--Daniel Katz

"Jonathan Mayhew's Lorca is less the distinctive Spanish poet, whose murder in 1936 marked the beginning of the Civil War, than he is an American invention. From the 1940s to the end of the century, our poets have invoked Lorca-in translation, of course-as a Romantic, exotic, radical, and, in many cases, gay icon-the poet of mystery and the duende. The Lorca myth, Mayhew argues persuasively, has enriched American lyric, but it has also been an obstacle to a more adequately grounded understanding of Spanish poetry in the 20th century. Apocryphal Lorca is revisionist criticism at its most acute."

-Marjorie Perloff

"Enhanced by copious notes and an excellent bibliography, this book offers a perceptive, intriguing assessment of the Garcia Lorca created by the postwar generation of American poets." (Choice )

"Mayhew is a critic who is at the top of his game; he combines a breadth of knowlege of the field with acute analysis."

--John C. Wilcox, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Let me just cut through all the usual, boring book review preliminaries and say the following thing: Jonathan Mayhew has, in Apocryphal Lorca, written an amazing book. "

--Brandon Holmquest, Calque

"The great merit of Mayhew's study is his sustained effort to document and interrogate Lorca's reception, unique among American encounters with foreign literatures in its nature and extent."

--Lawrence Venuti, TLS.

"Se trata de Jonathan Mayhew y su extraordinario estudio Apocryphal Lorca. Translation, Parody, Kitsch. Esta obra se ocupa no de García Lorca sino de cómo los escritores estadounidenses han reinventado a Lorca, desde Spicer y Rothenberg hasta O’Hara y Koch. Asimismo, es una discusión de la Deep Image —¡cuánto hay que desmenuzar de ese capítulo!— y la manera en que la poética norteamericana se ha apropiado de lo lorqueano (o lorcaesco) y del concepto de lo 'otro' que éste representa. Éste es un libro repleto de sutilezas, de tesis, apuntes, datos."

--Heriberto Yépez

"Apocryphal Lorca, sin embargo, es mucho más que un estudio de las vidas posteriores de Lorca en la poesía americana entre principios de los años 50 y 70. También ofrece un acercamiento histórico a la traducción de su obra, descubriendo reseñas de prensa significativas y discurriendo acerca de reconocimientos críticos. El texto es elegante y fresco; el análisis amplio e históricamente específico."

--María Delgado, Revista de Literatura

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