ALEX writes:

Laura writes:

From The Daily Mail:

A young Yale University professor has died while in police custody over the weekend following a domestic dispute with his estranged husband.

Police said Samuel See, 34, was arrested Saturday night after allegedly attacking officers who responded to reports of a disturbance in his home.

On Sunday, the 34-year-old English professor was found unresponsive in a cell at the Union Avenue Detention Facility and was pronounced dead a short time later.

New Haven police officers responded to See’s home just after 5pm Saturday after getting a call from See’s sister about a confrontation, NBC Connecticut reported.

According to detectives, See’s estranged husband, 32-year-old Sunder Ganglani, had stopped by the house to pick up his belongings and stayed there for more than two hours in violation of an order of protection.

Mr See asked police to remove his spouse from his residence, to which the officers responded that Ganglani also had an order of protection against him.

At that point, police said the 34-year-old man ‘became enraged,’ yelling that he should not be arrested because it is his house.

See allegedly put up a fight as the officers were trying to slap handcuffs on him.

As he was being led to the police cruiser waiting outside, See was quoted as screaming at one of the cops: ‘I will kill you… I will destroy you.’

Ganglani is a producer at Yale’s Foundry Theater. He posted a message on Facebook after the death:

On Monday, the 32-year-old now-widower posted a message on his page saying, in part, that ‘there is nothing that can take love away.’

Here is a description of See’s book in progress from the Yale web page Alex mentioned:

Book Manuscript: Queer Natures: Feeling Degenerate in Literary Modernism

This project examines how British and American modernist writers co-opt the scientific precepts of fin-de-siècle evolutionary and degeneration theories to create sexually and aesthetically experimental literature that represents queer feeling as natural and nature itself as queer. Such texts depict queer feeling (not acts or identities) as a material erotic sensation that is infinitely subject to change. Following Charles Darwin’s historically unprecedented conflation of sexual and aesthetic feeling in evolutionary biological theory, these texts produce and represent queer feeling through innovative literary forms like Gertrude Stein’s naturalist impressionism and D. H. Lawrence’s discursive lyricism. The evolutionary discourse of degeneration theory decried such works as pathologically degenerate on scientific and aesthetic grounds, yet modernist literature incorporates the negative feelings of degeneration theory and suggests that feeling degenerate is integral to the evolution of material forms, whether sexual, aesthetic, or otherwise. Whereas studies of modernist sexuality generally hold that modernist literature repudiates the positivist premises of 19th- century discourses and that queerness is categorically opposed to nature, Queer Natures offers a new literary history of modernist aesthetics and an anodyne for critical theory’s longstanding allergy to the concept of nature.

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T.D. writes:

I read the CV of the Yale professor who died following an altercation with his “husband” and the police during a domestic dispute.  Mr. See climbed to the pinnacle of academia based not on what he did, but what he was.  His academic “work” consists almost entirely of staring at his own reflection and writing about his own perversions.  In our increasingly decadent and narcissistic culture the cult of identity and celebrity grows ever stronger, while actual accomplishments diminish.  Outside of a very narrow technological field (digital computing), our society is no longer capable of progress.  Space travel, winning wars, and large scale public works projects are all things we are no longer capable of.  All the while, our ruling class pats themselves on the back because they are gay/transgendered/minority/woman/etc, with no substantive accomplishments to justify their power.

Recently, the NY Times ran a series of article contrasting Dallas 1965 with Dallas 2013.  Apparently, Dallas today is better because of diversity, or something.  One article compared the sheriff of Harris county from the bad old days to the current office holder.  In 1965, the sheriff was a white man who made a name for himself by hunting down Bonny and Clyde.  That was no small feat in the days before militarized police and body armor.  Today, the sheriff is a lesbian Hispanic.  Apparently, that is enough.

Laura writes:

If Mr. See had not been homosexual, he probably wouldn’t even have gotten a job at the local community college. But because he was, he attained the much-coveted position of English professor at Yale.

Yale is complicit in his death, by encouraging him in his psychological disorder.

This isn’t English literature. It’s academic pollution.

Aubrey Jubal writes:

While not quite Romeo & Juliette it does approach Spider Sabich-Claudine Longet quality. Hope there were no children by this union.

Laura writes:

I assume that See received his fatal injuries at the hands of the police. He apparently was not seriously injured when he was arrested.

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