/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17451720]

>look up philosophy professor on a whim
>he has his own wikipedia article and is apparently decently well-known within his field
I know that having a wikipedia article and being cited by your peers isn't an especially high threshold, but has /lit/ ever taken a class from a genuinely well-known academic? I know there are actually famous philosophers and theorists who still teach, and I'm interested how taking a class from someone famous differs from taking it from a no-name lecturer. Even just knowing my professor is moderately notable makes me look at my class a bit differently now, I already feel a little bad for being late and not taking it seriously enough.

[Anonymous No.17451739]

>>17451720
faggot

[Anonymous No.17451741]

>Even just knowing my professor is moderately notable makes me look at my class a bit differently now, I already feel a little bad for being late and not taking it seriously enough.
“WOW HE HAS A WIKI PAGE, WHAT A VENERABLE BEING HAS GRACED ME WITH HIS HOLY NOTABLE PRESENCE”

[Anonymous No.17451744]

this is not your blog

[Anonymous No.17451751]

>>17451741
The point was that I feel bad for wasting the time of someone who's actually an expert in their field rather than some dime a dozen lecturer, fuck off.

[Anonymous No.17451762]

>>17451744
Which is why I was asking if /lit/ has ever taken a class from someone actually famous, rather than my rather non-descript and unremarkable experience. I was just relating it to say what got me thinking about the subject.

[Anonymous No.17452759]

>>17451720
Why are people being cunts? This is a genuinely valid question and I'm interested in hearing actual responses. The only noteworthy professor I had was an absolutely brilliant Organic Chemistry prof. He had taught at USC for 30 years and moved to my school for semi-retirement, still taught because he loved it. Super nice person and dizzyingly brilliant. He'd gently try to explain stuff to us 18 and 19 years olds and we could barely keep up with him. His lectures were an endless cascade of cheerfully delivered information stated with perfect clarity. Back at USC he worked with Nobel Prize winner George Olah and was good friends with him.

[Anonymous No.17452772]

>>17451720
My federal courts prof was a judge on the fifth circuit and on the short list for a Supreme Court nom. He was old and we had the same cowboy western style of dress. Corduroy and bolo ties 4lyfe

[Anonymous No.17452785]

i took a european lit class with a professor who wrote the introduction to a tolstoy translation we had to read. very wonderful guy, great sense of humor. a couple of the students (myself included) had him sign our copies of the book. adds no value, except to amuse me forever.

[Anonymous No.17452801]

>>17451720
I took a philosophy of religion class with Graham Oppy once.

[Anonymous No.17452817]

No I haven't but bumping because you got hit by trolls, pseuds, and angry children

[Anonymous No.17452856]

i blew cocaine through a straw up
Simon Critchley's ass in the early 90s

I had sex with Richard Rorty's second ex wife

I mistook Judith Butler for a man and made a pass at her

[Anonymous No.17452887]

>>17452801
How was it?

[Anonymous No.17452911]

>>17452856
please be reeal

[Anonymous No.17452927]

>>17451720
I never had a course with her, but Angela Davis was a professor in my university’s “History of Consciousness” department. The department still exists and it’s still basically just propaganda.

[Anonymous No.17452933]

>>17451720
one of my current professors is by far the most highly cited person in his field and has a wikipedia page that doesnt seem to be written by him

[Anonymous No.17452935]

>>17452759
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9189569/Stepson-prominent-French-professor-files-complaint-alleged-sexual-abuse.html

I did. *gasp* he's my rapist

[Anonymous No.17452938]

>>17451720
No, but looking up your professors and seeing their entire academic history is a weird feel

[Anonymous No.17453162]

>>17451720
Christopher Lasch's daughter taught in my department as a professor during my undergraduate. Never had a class with her, but I did interview her once. I knew her own daughter too weirdly enough, before I had heard of either of them.

A professor of mine once dragged me into a massive faculty meeting, in which the administration was outlining some new ways how'd they'd be fucking everyone over. Felt extremely out of place as the only student in an auditorium of 50+ professors. During the question time, Lasch's daughter verbally destroyed the cunt Provost and got some big applause. She's very much as based and aligned with her father, just knows how to toe the line in modern academia.

[Anonymous No.17453351]

>>17451720
this gives you opportunities thanks to nepotism - good for you

[Anonymous No.17453387]

I had a class with a guy named Brando Skyhorse. He is a writing professor and writer who wrote an autobiography about having a dozen step dads and being lied to by his mom regarding whether he is Hispanic or Indigenous American.

[Anonymous No.17453456]

>>17451720
The professor I had for algebra-based physics, Dr. Daniel Bullock, laid the ground work for the discovery of the Higgs-Boson. He's not very well known outside of CERN, but he's pretty well-known there.

[Anonymous No.17453601]

>>17452887
Pretty meh.

[Anonymous No.17454203]

>>17451720

[Anonymous No.17454263]

>>17452759
>dizzyingly brilliant

[Anonymous No.17454427]

I took a creative nonfiction course with a fiction writer who’d go on to become fairly well known back in '94. We weren't allowed to show anyone our essays outside of the class for some reason. He seemed naturally intelligent, didnt need to look at any notes or textbooks or prepare for any lectures, he just knew his stuff and was super casual.

I saw him talking to a girl on campus one day. He uncharacteristically wore a Fila sweatsuit, the kind that looks like it's made from the same material as parachutes, and trainer sneakers with a matching bandana. That was his pussy hunt outfit apparently. Several times a week, same outfit, I'd see him hitting on women in it. I once saw him wearing it while carrying an identical outfit from the dry cleaners, he had like 4 sets of same Fila sweatsuit.

I asked him about it in class and he said we aren't allowed to discuss anything unrelated to class while inside class, the same way we can't show anyone outside of class our essays. A student called out "but Dostoevsky isn't in this class and last week you talked about replicating his black tea obsession to test its affects on your own writing". He stared blankly at the student with dead eyes for 30 seconds in dead silence then said "you just got knocked down a full letter grade. Any other smart asses? Didn't think so." and pushed up his glasses with his index finger.

I remember telling myself this guy will either be super successful or kill himself.

[Anonymous No.17454521]

>>17454427
Name him. Why are you defending him lol. Issac Asimov was known to be a groper.

[Anonymous No.17454535]

>>17452759
I would accept Einstein being called dizzyingly brilliant, and it would still be pretentious as fuck. Relax, the guy knew how to teach undergrads. Let me know when your teacher cures cancer or something

[Anonymous No.17454597]

My first English professor in community college had a wikipedia page.

[Anonymous No.17454654]

>>17454521
Lurk more.

[Anonymous No.17454681]

>>17454427
Give me a name so I can buy all his books

[Anonymous No.17454699]

>>17454681
I’m surrounded by newfags.

[Anonymous No.17454725]

>>17451720
I go to a top 50 philosophy PhD program so yes. At least three of them are on Wikipedia and not without reason. I am not naming them on 4chan because that narrows my identity down too close for comfort. If you're an undergrad though you've got nothing to worry about, who's your prof?