experiences with English/literature professors

[Anonymous No.12086704]

what have your experiences with your professors been like? Are they helpful, contemptuous, arrogant?

[Anonymous No.12086707]

>>12086704
mine sexually harassed me all semester until I finally sucked him off for a good mark. He's been a good boyfriend all these years.

[Anonymous No.12086710]

>>12086704
My russian literature professor has been super helpful, she gives pretty sobering advice on grad school too. If I was a literature major, I'm sure she'd be more helpful.

[Anonymous No.12086712]

>>12086704
Fat disgusting obese piece of shit
I hope she dies of a heart Attack soon

[Anonymous No.12087652]

Pretty chill, good people. Definitely helpful. Less contemptuous than I am to the pleb masses.

[Anonymous No.12087668]

>>12086704

we were studying Bram Stoker's "dracula" and i mistakenly admitted that i had read the book before. she was so impressed she announced to a class of about 120 people that next week i was going to be giving a lecture on the book.

Uh, no, I'm not. i didn't agree to that. i'm not getting paid to teach your classes, i have crippling social anxiety, and just where the fuck did you get that impression that i was going to lecture your students?

i didn't say any of that out loud, but i did send her a rather terse email and i dropped the class. bitch had to prepare her own notes.

[Anonymous No.12087740]

>>12086704
They're all unironically helpful and seem genuinely interested in seeing me do well. My literary theory professor had some takes on Plato and Aristotle's literary criticism that really turned my head around. Reminded me that a professor isn't just the guy that organizes tests and marks your essays.

[Anonymous No.12087759]

>>12087668
You're trolling, right?

[Anonymous No.12087786]

>>12086704
They're nice for the most part but their anti-white rhetoric drives me up the fucking wall. No matter what we read, they always find a way to squeeze white guilt into the lecture in one way or another. It's so exhausting.

[Anonymous No.12087871]

>>12086704
mine have all been very intelligent and well read I have learned a lot from them. they are also very helpful and guve good advice for writing assignments your writong will definitely improve towards the end of the class. there is a bit of smugness in some of them and they drop some comments about politics here and there however i don't particularly mind nor do i disagree with what they have to say.

[Anonymous No.12087873]

>>12087668
She might have been clueless about anxiety or something but she was probably trying to cultivate you or at least to do a nice thing.

[Anonymous No.12087881]

>>12086704
I know this is a joke but the stereotype is true. I've heard so many stories about unwanted advances from English profs from female friends, more than professors from every other subject combined. It must be something about the nature of the kind of person who is drawn to the subject... a typical sadboy-fuckboi combo.

I have a creative writing class rn that I'm required to take in order to graduate for my major (not english or lit related) and wrote a short story about a student having an affair with her teacher and he gave me a great grade on it lmao

[Anonymous No.12087976]

One identifies as a post-structuralist
Three identify as queer theorists
One of the queer theorists is also a post-colonialist
And the eldest always talks about sex and phallic imagery where no one else seems to pick up on it. It’s a shame he’s retiring.

[Anonymous No.12088121]

>>12087976
>One identifies as a post-structuralist
>Three identify as queer theorists
This shit with letting people identify as any gender they can think of has clearly gone too far.

[Anonymous No.12088133]

>>12087668

>could have networked your way into grad school
>told teacher to fuck off

lol have fun getting recommendation letters

[Anonymous No.12088649]

>>12087881
Word? I might go to grad school now.

[Anonymous No.12088791]

>>12088649
Key word in "unwanted advances by english profs" is "UNWANTED"

You really think women like short doughy pear shaped DFW wannabes with patchy beards?

Bruh if it isn't working for you now, a change of scenery isn't going to fix that. Go work out.

[Anonymous No.12090080]

>>12086704
>Be me, college IT student coursing last semester
>Take a creative course because lol easy grade
>80% write a 20page book of whatever shit you come up, 20% is class assistance
>First class, teach is super chill. Takes 70 minutes just for roll call where he asked each and every one of the 30 students a single personal question and elaborating.
>Whatever, it was first class.
>Next class, the same. He asks a question and talks to each person, while taking roll call, about the topic and promoting a discourse with the entire class.
>Then the same, roll call and 20 minutes of a group activity
>A lot of topics are being thrown around, the teach talks about movies, poets, paintings, music and books obviously.
>He has something to say to whichever topic our conversation leads to. And its not bullshit things, he really knows his stuff.
>Half semester and we haven't learned anything about writing, how to make a book, if we should read anything before making our story.
>When asked, he only respond "just make a 20 page book the way you think a book is made. By the end of semester, i want to have 30 books on my last class."
>We asked about how to print it, what font, which size, a fiction or non-fiction, story...
>However you think is best to give me. Last year i got 2 recipe books, im still trying to make risotto done right.
>Semester went by and it was over too soon. I got him a 120 page story because i felt so motivated.
>Every class was interesting, sometimes people brought their own books they were writing and we got to tear them apart
>Asked the teacher if i can come to a class even if a graduate
>He said yes, people already did that so he didn't mind
Next semester, he was accused by an anonymous student of sexual harassment. He denied it in a public video, so the university had to let him go.

[Anonymous No.12090734]

>>12090080
Feels good to know such character exists. Feels bad to see him punished. I hate people

[Anonymous No.12090755]

>>12087976
>post-structuralist
>queer theory
Wtf it’s 2018 not 1995, most professors are doing new materialisms and shit to pump out papers and get funding

[Anonymous No.12090817]

Sometimes for seminars we’d go to the bar by campus and the professor bought the first round as we talked about 18C lit.

[Anonymous No.12090840]

>>12086704
My professors have been nice and helpful, though I've always felt that they're way too lenient and give too little criticism, as if to avoid hurting my feelings.

[Anonymous No.12090850]

>>12086707
Sounds hot

[Anonymous No.12090864]

Profs have always been good for the most part, sometimes I bully them because they’re all virgins but I get along with the Chad professors and we go to the pub occasionally

[Anonymous No.12092123]

I found them to be soulless bureaucrats

[Anonymous No.12093121]

>>12090080
Nice

[Anonymous No.12094080]

So, Lit Instructor here. I am a PhD candidate who is done with classwork/Comps, but I am not done with my Diss.

I am transitioning out of teaching 1301 and 1302 so an actual Lit course (American Lit).

Curious what things people might let me know helped them, especially non-ENGL/Lit majors? I am fully aware that my class is not the most important thing students will be engaging with, but I am still curious what helps students 'connect' to Lit. Rhetoric is a tool-set you need to practice with and practice, practice and practice with, but ... man ... what helps any of you connect with, understand and/or critique a novel?