Medical School in Illinois
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I'm sure there's a good explanation.
Ah, of course there is:
The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine briefly employed Emily Kruse Carr, the daughter of its dean, as its first poetry professor this fall, university records show.
Carr, a creative writing professor and self-described “ecofeminist” and “beach witch,” joined the medical school as an assistant professor of medical humanities and medical education in August, according to her LinkedIn profile and university records.
“Emily Carr’s last day at SIU School of Medicine was Friday,” Rikeesha Phelon, spokeswoman for the university, told The College Fix last week.
Phelon confirmed that Carr was “briefly employed” in the area of medical humanities, which she said helps “inform medical education, policy and practice” through the study of “philosophy, history, religion, social sciences and the arts, including creative writing and poetry.”
It's unclear what they mean by "brief," but perhaps it was only for a matter of a few months.
Nevertheless, it's an interesting "coincidence."
“There are 5,800 institutions of higher learning across America. What are the odds that Carr landed at the only institution that employs her father as dean and provost?” Andrzejewski told The College Fix.
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I'm sure there's a good explanation.
Ah, of course there is:
The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine briefly employed Emily Kruse Carr, the daughter of its dean, as its first poetry professor this fall, university records show.
Carr, a creative writing professor and self-described “ecofeminist” and “beach witch,” joined the medical school as an assistant professor of medical humanities and medical education in August, according to her LinkedIn profile and university records.
“Emily Carr’s last day at SIU School of Medicine was Friday,” Rikeesha Phelon, spokeswoman for the university, told The College Fix last week.
Phelon confirmed that Carr was “briefly employed” in the area of medical humanities, which she said helps “inform medical education, policy and practice” through the study of “philosophy, history, religion, social sciences and the arts, including creative writing and poetry.”
It's unclear what they mean by "brief," but perhaps it was only for a matter of a few months.
Nevertheless, it's an interesting "coincidence."
“There are 5,800 institutions of higher learning across America. What are the odds that Carr landed at the only institution that employs her father as dean and provost?” Andrzejewski told The College Fix.
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I wish I had had a course in poetry (I could have had a reasonable conversation with @Aqua-Letifer ).
Instead, I learned all the boring stuff:
Gross anatomy
Biochemistry
Histology
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I'm so glad you came across that, George. I'm glad the nonsense that pervades poetry is finally seeping into other areas of life. Maybe now someone will actually step in and call the insanity what it is.
Her bullshit is entirely typical of the environment.
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What really bothers me is a couple of things.
The fact that such a position even exists. I know she's no longer employed there, but someone had to create the spot. That person should be fired for no other reason than because I said so.
Secondly, the blatant nepotism. I suppose she was only there for a while because someone found out that her daddy ($650K a year) is dean.
EDIT:
If you look at the faculty page, there's no "poetry" listed.
https://www.siumed.edu/faculty
Did they shut it down?
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What really bothers me is a couple of things.
The fact that such a position even exists. I know she's no longer employed there, but someone had to create the spot. That person should be fired for no other reason than because I said so.
Secondly, the blatant nepotism. I suppose she was only there for a while because someone found out that her daddy ($650K a year) is dean.
EDIT:
If you look at the faculty page, there's no "poetry" listed.
https://www.siumed.edu/faculty
Did they shut it down?
@George-K said in Medical School in Illinois:
What really bothers me is a couple of things.
The fact that such a position even exists. I know she's no longer employed there, but someone had to create the spot. That person should be fired for no other reason than because I said so.
Secondly, the blatant nepotism. I suppose she was only there for a while because someone found out that her daddy ($650K a year) is dean.
Those are all valid points. What bothers me about it is that this is exactly how poetry as a field of study gets its reputation. This shit right here. It's because of this woman and other dipshits like her that my degree is laughed at.
Don't get me wrong, though, I'm not sorry at all that I studied what I did. As my master's advisor — okay not my actual advisor, who was a drunk and never showed up to our meetings so I had to be reassigned to someone who wasn't a poet but actually took his job seriously (seeing the fucking pattern here?) — liked to say, "poetry isn't going anywhere."
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Kids still make up catchy slurs to sling at each other.
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People don't make up their own poems and songs as much as they used to, but they'll reconfigure pop song lyrics in a Weird Al kind of a way as a joke.
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More formally, you'll often hear poetry brought out in wedding ceremonies, eulogies, and retirement speeches. Shoddy limericks maybe, but it's still poetry.
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Poetry still provides the central theme to our best movies and TV shows. You can't have Breaking Bad without "The Learned Astronomer." (Ever wonder why the main character's name is Walt?) You can't have Interstallar without Dylan Thomas. You wouldn't have the Addams Family or Netflix's "Wednesday" without "Monday's Child."
We don't respect poetry anymore — and I don't blame anyone who doesn't, really — but we still know we should.
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@George-K said in Medical School in Illinois:
What really bothers me is a couple of things.
The fact that such a position even exists. I know she's no longer employed there, but someone had to create the spot. That person should be fired for no other reason than because I said so.
Secondly, the blatant nepotism. I suppose she was only there for a while because someone found out that her daddy ($650K a year) is dean.
Those are all valid points. What bothers me about it is that this is exactly how poetry as a field of study gets its reputation. This shit right here. It's because of this woman and other dipshits like her that my degree is laughed at.
Don't get me wrong, though, I'm not sorry at all that I studied what I did. As my master's advisor — okay not my actual advisor, who was a drunk and never showed up to our meetings so I had to be reassigned to someone who wasn't a poet but actually took his job seriously (seeing the fucking pattern here?) — liked to say, "poetry isn't going anywhere."
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Kids still make up catchy slurs to sling at each other.
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People don't make up their own poems and songs as much as they used to, but they'll reconfigure pop song lyrics in a Weird Al kind of a way as a joke.
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More formally, you'll often hear poetry brought out in wedding ceremonies, eulogies, and retirement speeches. Shoddy limericks maybe, but it's still poetry.
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Poetry still provides the central theme to our best movies and TV shows. You can't have Breaking Bad without "The Learned Astronomer." (Ever wonder why the main character's name is Walt?) You can't have Interstallar without Dylan Thomas. You wouldn't have the Addams Family or Netflix's "Wednesday" without "Monday's Child."
We don't respect poetry anymore — and I don't blame anyone who doesn't, really — but we still know we should.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Medical School in Illinois:
We don't respect poetry anymore
Probably because it's not taught, and therefore not understood.
I asked my kids who ee cummings was. They had no clue. I knew cummings when I was a freaking sophomore in HIGH SCHOOL.
"What's a sonnet?"
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Medical School in Illinois:
We don't respect poetry anymore
Probably because it's not taught, and therefore not understood.
I asked my kids who ee cummings was. They had no clue. I knew cummings when I was a freaking sophomore in HIGH SCHOOL.
"What's a sonnet?"
@George-K said in Medical School in Illinois:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Medical School in Illinois:
We don't respect poetry anymore
Probably because it's not taught, and therefore not understood.
I asked my kids who ee cummings was. They had no clue. I knew cummings when I was a freaking sophomore in HIGH SCHOOL.
That's pretty much the ideal time to learn about cummings. They didn't know? SMH.
"What's a sonnet?"
Oh for fuck's sake.
But yeah, I get it. In the few places where it's taught, too, they do nothing to make it accessible. And the funny thing is, there's nothing more accessible than poetry.
It's how we passed the time before TV and, well, capitalism. You'd have a pilgrim stay at your house overnight on his way to the holy land, or a traveller making it home by foot after a viking raid destroyed his ship, whatever, and you'd share poems you knew with the folks who took you in for the night. Everyone was quite keen on it.
That goes back to ancient times, but even in the Victorian era you'd have folks makin' up washing songs, sea shanties and sing-songy taunts to aggravate your classmates.
It's far more natural and long-standing than writing with a pen and people don't even know what it is today.
