Some college professors think they are the second coming of Christ with their table-flipping antics.

Thanks for tuning in this morning to another edition of Make Them Famous. In this episode, we will shine the spotlight on University of Wisconsin English Department professor and chair, José Felipe Alvergue.

I am deeply concerned that our students’ peaceful effort to share information on campus on election day was disrupted. UW-Eau Claire strongly supports every person’s right to free speech and free expression, and the university remains committed to ensuring that campus is a place where a wide variety of opinions and beliefs can be shared and celebrated.”-Interim Provost Michael Carney

The (nutty) professor claimed the College Republicans were “too close to the polling station” before claiming “the time was over” and flipping over their table.

Alvergue has been put on administrative leave. Of course, he has. How else is a PhD in poetics going to live if he were flat-out fired? Can’t expect José to sling burgers or do anything close to manual labor. That would be a total waste of this highly-cerebral hooooooman and wordsmith. This great mind of academia would just waste away into nothing.

People who lack wisdom should not be put in charge of anything until they gain wisdom.

Especially if they cannot control their anger or have impulse control.

Nope. https://t.co/04lrVhRGvi

— Andrea (@usebigears) April 2, 2025

But, they are put “in charge”. And subsequently, still paid on admin leave even when their actions deem them to be mentally unstable. I call this….what’s the word? Oh yeah…

PRIVILEGE.

From he/him/his (of course) personal website (self-written in the third person):

A graduate of both the Cal Arts Writing (MFA) and Buffalo Poetics (PhD) programs, José engages both critical and creative language, often bridging them, overlapping them, and subverting them.”-jfalvergue.com

OOOO. Ahh. Nothing says engaging critical and creative language like flipping over a damn table, José. But he’s a good socialist who hates America as he demonstrates, despite his ability to overcome and get that PhD:

I was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, and migrated with my family to the United States at the commencement of El Salvador’s civil war. Growing up on the Mexico/US Border and being a part of the Central American diaspora have informed the nature of my work, which borrows from postlyric, docupoetic, and hybrid compositional practices. As have my experiences of living through the structural inequality, hate, and racial supremacy of Southern California’s political landscape during the late 1990s, including the various examples of xenophobic legislation, police abuse, and the militarization of the border.”-José Felipe Alvergue

Oh. Docupoetic practices and the incorporation of these in highlighting inequality, hate and racial supremacy. Riiiiight. More word vomit from the oppressed prof:

Though critical of nationalistic practices I write towards the discovery of Nation. In these characteristics, of retrieving and/or aspiring towards language to clarify what the immediacy of experience overwhelms, I often feel an affinity with works of the 20th- and 21st-Centuries that similarly explore repertoires of traumatic recovery and historical/collective trauma towards a “core language” binding Nation and individual, history and memory, love and disavowal.”-José Felipe Alvergue

Slow. Clap. That word salad you’ve just ingested with your eyes is a Kamala Harris voter through-and-through. More from an interview in 2017 regarding his book of poetry, précis:

Emily Anderson: Your new book of poetry, précis, revolves around the question of the US-Mexico border and explores how the border gives meaning to human bodies and also landscapes. Parts of the book focus on a young woman, Alma Gonzales, who was hit by a drunk driver and killed near the border. You incorporate newspaper clippings about her death as well as a lot of other documents and texts. I notice that you’re situating this project geographically and politically but I also wonder if there is an element of elegy, or how you feel about that term being used.

José Felipe Alvergue: People were seeing it as significant for lives lost as they were trying to cross the border…it also represented bodies that were [politically] absent from the border…some people are present as a population but not as a person so much. Near Texas a lot of people were taking them to also represent the missing women from Ciudad Juarez. So a lot of the meanings started to become attached to [the installation], and it really was contextual to region.-Full Stop

And, further down, we get José’s real perspective, minus the talking in circles:

Emily Anderson: When you think about national policy, do you feel any déjà vu now, or is it a different thing, what’s happening now?

José Felipe Alvergue: It’s the exact same, static hum of fucking racism. It’s the same thing, it’s the same thing from 1866, it’s the same.

My guess is José Felipe Alvergue has had his head under a rock over the last three years or has turned a blind eye to innocent American women and girls being assaulted, raped and murdered by illegal criminals who crossed the border multiple times, thanks to the people he voted for. What about those women? What about the women who are trafficked by gang members (here illegally) and forced into lives of drug abuse and prostitution? What about that static hum of f#cking racism and oppression? That’s not part of his (I hate this word with a purple passion) pedagogy, apparently. Can’t be bothered to write poetic prose about these issues. Alverque has been too busy collecting tenure in (very white), Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he and his wife (also a professor at University of Wisconsin) live, in peace. Rumor has it, Dr. Stefanie Ferrer also ran for the Eau Claire School Board:

* Jose's wife, Stephanie Farrar is up for election today (4/1/25) to the Eau Claire Area School Board.https://t.co/P2dxno61oa

— Donna from Texas (@frit96352) April 1, 2025

Keeping the indoctrination train a-rollin’. The vibes. The joy. The love. The light.

Now as a parent, as a partner, as a teacher, a voter, a neighbor, it has become ever more imperative for me to find new ways of clarifying where the self begins and ends, and tending to the clarity of one’s love for an other.”-José Felipe Alvergue

No way, José. The words from Alvergue’s 2017 interview came back to bite him in the buttocks, I’d say. Tending to the clarity of one’s love for another. Except, for political dissenters of the woke, leftist regime. Then, flip all the tables your little, pretentious, pseudo-intellectual heart desires.

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