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Originally posted by: Hearing his own horn above all others
"Philip Kolin is notorious for tooting his own horn . . I hear he treats his graduate students assistants like slaves . ."

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There is nothing in that article that even remotely suggests that Professor Philip Kolin is blowing his own horn. He is obviously recognized as a scholar in his speciality and was called upon to comment on the topic. There's nothing wrong with being recognized outside of Mississippi, is there?

The graduate assistants in my department also work very hard. And sometimes they complain about it. But that's why they are here. Learning from and working with productive scholars is what graduate school is all about. Ask about your medical doctor about their education, training, and residency.

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Originally posted by: Hearing his own horn above all others
"Philip Kolin is notorious for tooting his own horn. Ask the folks in Public Relations about him...he sends out a press release every time he walks out of the door of his office. I hear he treats his graduate students assistants like slaves, too. He needs to spend more time working on his teaching skills and less time hounding his grad assistants."

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Poster with the seven word name:

When the writer who did that Richmond Times Dispatch piece needed some interpretive information about Tennessee Williams, she didn't call a someone in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, or Ole Miss. She called Professor Kolin of the University of Southern Mississippi's Department of English. It is highly unlikely that he called her. The writer probably learned from a reliable source that Kolin is a knowledgable scholar who could provide the desired information.

If you have any connection whatsoever with our institution, you should be proud that the University of Southern Mississippi's Department of English has been able to assemble a distinguished array of scholars such as Professor Kolin and others. You should be pleased when you see one of our English scholars' name appear in a newspaper hundreds of miles away. You should be appreciative that somebody bothered to take note of the article and transmit on the message board. You should be distressed that many of USM's English scholars have departed or are in the process of leaving. You should hope and pray that the tragedy which has occurred at USM will end soon so that this exodus will stop.

If you took a course with Professor Kolin I am sure you were provided a course evaluation form which is a proper method that the university provides for you to evaluate a professor. I am reasonably confident that Philip Kolin did not evaluate you or any other student publicly. Academic integrity and common sense would not permit that. Your public evaluation of Professor Kolin was unkind. But I suppose a double standard does exist.