re: Did you ever have a college English professor who wrote good literature?

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This doesn’t make sense.

No one says “cock this” or “cock that”.

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Look all I'm saying is that the collection of her poems and essays might not have been her only published work if her stories of her taking a few dozens c*cks (sometimes not all at once) included at least some genetically engineered dinosaurs running amok in a theme park.

That would be a page-turner.

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$75k is certainly better than a lot of my female peers with useless degrees.

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Very true

I’m in that same range as well. I guess we’re OT poor but IRL comfortable

Was an accounting major for an entire semester before it occurred to me that I actually had to be halfway decent at math.

Meanwhile, my cousin graduated in PE from LSU a few years ago and is already making six figures at 25 *eye roll*

ETA: I did take one Contemporary Lit class and it was literally every stereotype rolled into one. We read David Foster Wallace and the like, and both professor and classmates were the worst. Otherwise I enjoyed most of my upper level classes

Yes! Haha. I was a totally brainwashed leftist back then, so I absolutely loved the two woke classes I had (same professor). I did my capstone project on the binary gender system. This is way before it was a hot button topic like it is today. I can’t believe that was me.

Criticism was very woke, but I appreciate knowing those takes and having read those texts now. Helps understanding the other side, even if I think they’re looney now.

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Needless to say, no college prof writes tech thrillers about stealth subs or dinosaur theme park islands.

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I too like Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton

Sucks that both those baws died

No but I've read TulaneLSU's posts.

I had john Gardner in grad school. he had a couple of novels about Norse legends. one from point of view of the monster.
he was a motorcycle rider.
speeded. I was a heavy footed driver and could barely keep up on back roads in my car.
he died in a wreck age 49.
a hard case. unique.
Britannica says:

Gardner published two novels, The Resurrection (1966) and The Wreckage of Agathon (1970), before his reputation was established with the appearance of Grendel (1971), a retelling of the Beowulf story from the point of view of the monster. His next novel, The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), is an ambitious epic with a large cast of characters. Later novels by Gardner include October Light (1976; National Book Critics Circle Award), Freddy’s Book (1980), and Mickelsson’s Ghosts (1982).

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Did you ever have a college English professor who wrote good literature?

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Nope. People teach English because they failed at what they wanted to do.