“My new favourite blog is by a Ukrainian-born scholar of Hispanic Literature named “Clarissa” – she doesn’t reveal her surname or some other would-be identifying information, like her university’s name – whose work I first encountered on Jonathan Mayhew’s Stupid Motivational Tricks (Scholarly Writing and How to Get it Done) blog, where she frequently posts tart, uncommon-sounding comments.”
” No other academic blog I know of so beautifully conveys the author’s love of academia, specifically the love of being a professor.”
“Her prose is a jumping, her tone is unsparing, and her focus is wide.”
And you thought nobody liked me! Well, maybe that wasn’t you but somebody surely thought that.
P.S. Finally, somebody applied the word “pellucid” to my writing. For somebody who used to hear that her writing is clunky, Germanic, and pedestrian this is a big deal.
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