Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

According Ryan Struyk (via CNN), “the US has been in a perpetual state of declared national emergency for four decades, and the country is currently under 31 concurrent states of emergency ….” Do these multiple cries of alarm sound familiar?

What’s up, doc? The first edition of Book One of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), the first modern novel according to Harold Bloom, was published on this day in 1605 in Madrid.

Update (1/17): The paper is now posted on SSRN. That is the title of my most recent scholarly paper, which I am currently in the process of editing and which will be published in a symposium issue of the Arkansas … Continue reading →

And two old scholarly papers! Here is what I am reading to begin the new year: Biography/Chess: Tim Crothers, The Queen of Katwe (2013). Biography/Religion: Fiona MacMath, editor, The Faith of Samuel Johnson (1990). Comics: Corban Wilkin, Ernest Hemingway’s Old … Continue reading →

Some scholars are beginning to advocate for a partial lottery system for the awarding of research grants, an idea that is long overdue in my humble opinion. Why? Among other things, because under a random allocation system a new researcher … Continue reading →