#english professor

[academic-vampire]

The overwhelming urge to become a hot professor….

[gingerbredman1989]

Muscular English Professor.

NightCafe AI

[enigmasandepiphanies]

I love my literary methods class because your medieval english PHD professor also takes this course and she starts with French structuralist Roland Barthes, then shows a video essay of analysing death of the author through fault in our stars, discussing Anne Rice's Reign of Terror in ff.net era, she asks you (not rhetorically)what's the difference between reader response criticism and fanfiction, she goes on a rant about how we are lucky to have ao3's sorting system unlike her livejournal days, THEN SHE TELLS YOU ABOUT A STUCKY FIC SHE LOVES where they can't find a particular banana species in modern day, then she discusses Saussure's theory of signfier and signifed THROUGH A TUMBLR MEME and how memes blur those boundaries, and ends the class by saying I have done my job as a millenial professor, I LOVE HER.

[jonnymarzetti]

i love my english professor, God bless all the good english professors out there

[queerdandelion]

I think English teachers overanalyze stories because there’s subconscious meaning in everything or they’re just using their own experiences and applying them. Like there’s that famous joke “the curtains were blue” and the author didn’t mean anything by it but an English teacher will be like “the blue curtains represent depression”. Maybe this author didn’t mean that but there are other authors who use color symbolism. Maybe it’s a guess at the mental state of someone who would buy blue curtains. I guess I’m saying English teachers have headcanons.

[dxmxuse]

my professor canceled class bc she’s actively on tour for her book about cannabis and i absolutely love her for that

[its-all-down-hill]

[paniniqueen]

Hector’s not necessarily the hero or the villain, he’s just the good guy.

my English professor

[bookhorder16]

One of my English Professors said that once the question is answered the reader loses interest in the story but I have read countless fluff fics with absolutely no meaning.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[ancientsstudies]

Farewell, Professor McGonagall.

[appalachian-reptilian]

Honestly the best thing about teaching undergraduate composition is the looks on my students faces when they figure out a paper topic they are interested in. I don't know how comp. is taught in highschool, but its like they've seen the messiah when that idea comes to them.

[bricreative]

Outfit ideas for Max, cuz I will say I’m just not crazy about the skintight turtleneck in DE. And as always, butch Chloe

[manzanamarim]

Guess what I finally got to play! I had a blast I wish lawyers were real

[nicholasandriani]

They Shall Be As Ferching As They Are Deadly: A Reader Responds to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a mash-up novel by Seth Grahame-Smith that reimagines Jane Austen’s classic novel “Pride and Prejudice” with elements of zombie fiction. The novel was first published in 2009 and quickly became a best-seller, inspiring a film adaptation and a number of other novels in the same vein. From a fan studies perspective, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies can be seen as…

[nervanna]

He also asked Molly for advice :>

(For anyone who is guessing, his book is called "FANTASTIC BEASTS: a guide to education of an intelligent wizard)