Growing up in the 70’s in Spain, the Brazilian Roberto Carlos was all over the place, along with Abba en Español (yes, they recorded in Spanish too), Richard Clayderman, Leif Garrett, Enrique y Anna and other cringeworthy and cool acts. I remember spending lazy sunday afternoons drawing and painting as Roberto Carlos played on the [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 28, 2007
The Sentimental Education (1869) by Gustave Flaubert
For MODL 5304, I had the pleasure of assigning and rereading Flaubert’s The Sentimental Education (1869), which I had read as an undergraduate at the University of California Santa Cruz in the late eighties or early nineties. I did not remember the novel in much detail but it helped me become passionate about nineteenth-century studies, [...]
February 24, 2007
New Design
The title of this post not only refers to the new “look” of this page, but also to its new organization. Information relating to my teaching has been moved to the “Pages” section and I’ve purged many old posts. I hope to use this blog in a more dynamic and personal way. In particular, I [...]
