I teach Shakespeare & Co at the University of Toronto. Also sit in dark rooms a lot, watching people do stuff. Opinions are my own, not my employer's.
Feb 17, 2020 • 48 tweets • 6 min read
A short thread about academic training.
Specifically, graduate training, and discipline-specific training. Sub-discipline, really.
Most of us in the academic world spend our younger years getting more and more tightly focussed in our interests and, perhaps more importantly, our methods.
Jan 16, 2019 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
A quick thread: why a 10 percent cut to ON tuition fees is disastrous news.
ON universities receive the lowest level of provincial funding per-student of all Canadian universities: see p. 4 here: ocufa.on.ca/assets/2017-OC….
