The hardest class in literature?
Feeling Fridayish? Cheer yourself up with THIS slice of joy, provided by some very bright, presumably bored spark, who hacked into the Trinity College, Dublin website yesterday to add a new member to the faculty. The “Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Hyborian Studies and Tyrant Slaying” has a compelling resume: as well as having “spent several years tethered to the fearsome ‘Wheel of Pain’, time which he now feels helped provide him with the mental discipline and sado-masochistic proclivities necessary to successfully tackle contemporary critical theory” he has also, apparently, completed a PhD, entitled “To Hear The Lamentation of Their Women: Constructions of Masculinity in Contemporary Zamoran Literature”. Anyone considering attending his classes will be interested to note that his courses for 2011/2012 include “The Relevance of Crom in the Modern World”, “Theories of Literature”, “Vengeance for Beginners”, “Deciphering the Riddle of Steel” and “D.H. Lawrence”.
