Javier Jiménez Westerman, PhD

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How To

What we do as teachers, especially those of us in higher education, is usually invisible. The curricular development and day-to-day planning, among other things, seem to just happen. Sometimes it feels like…

Why Love?

Here’s how I found out I harbored a very unpopular opinion. I was once asked to participate in a teaching workshop during graduate school. I was supposed to share my expertise after…

The Queer Parallax of Affect

Or, Feeling and Meaning Across Cultures. Young Royals broke my heart–and stitched it back up again. Many people seem to be healed, rehabilitated by their experience with Heated Rivalry. That happened to…

Can the World Truly Run on Kindness?

The immigration and “woke” controversy is certainly not about Superman’s “immigration status”—Superman is a fictional character, after all. The real problem is what Superman means for the United States in 2025. In…

I Did It For Love

In the last couple of months, I’ve lived through a few milestones and accomplishments that are puzzlingly, wonderfully hard to process. On May 16 (which happens to be my Coming to America…

Teen Angst Revisited

Some common experiences come to us later in life. Netflix’s Young Royals has inexplicably allowed me to remember and appreciate a kind of love I don’t have access to and never did. In a…

Refashioning

Refashioning. That’s the thread that ties together the six blog posts that I have listed below. Four of these posts are about my own intellectual process, while the other two seem to…

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