Harvard Offers Graduate Course “Cacaphonies: Toward an Excremental Poetics”

Just in case anyone doubts that much of what students are taught at prestigious Ivy League universities these days is a load of crap:

Harvard University offers the four-credit course “Cacaphonies: Toward an Excremental Poetics,” which vows to take “fecal presence seriously” in French literature.

Students getting their masters at Harvard can sign up for the course taught by Annabel Kim, an assistant professor of romance languages and literatures. The course will also study constipation and whether it is unfairly “gendered” as female. …

“The task of excretion, which translates into concrete form our experience of the world (we excrete what we take in, processing and giving it new form), is also the task of literature,” the course catalog states.

Or at least it is the task of academia.

The nutty professor holds a PhD from Yale. She also teaches a course entitled, “Queer Fictions.”

Harvard is a private university with a massive tax-exempt endowment of $37.6 billion. Nonetheless, the federal government lavishly subsidizes this literal crap with money it confiscates from regular Americans. What a racket.

On a tip from J.