Elizabeth Weinstock

I really enjoyed my class with Professor Weinstock. She made what I thought would be a very boring class interesting. She obviously enjoyed the material she was teaching, and she knew it very well. Unfortunately, she was sick for a majority of the semester, so she was very slow grading papers and giving out assignments. We were supposed to write three papers over the course of the semester, with a rough draft for the first two papers. We only ended up writing two, and the first had a rough draft. Even so, I really wasn;t interested in the topic at all but ended up loving the class. I want to take more of her classes in the future.

Prof. Weinstock is one of the nicest professors I've had so far. She is always so enthusiastic about the material and about in class discussions. I remember when we went to the Cloisters, and maybe only five people from my class were able to make it, but she was still so excited about it. I loved how she would go on and on about all the artifacts and displays and then stop and be self-conscious about being too talkative. It was the cutest thing ever and just shows how much she loves what she's doing. Although the course did nothing to improve my writing as Prof. Weinstock, like the other reviewer said, left all the work to the Writing Fellows, I did learn a lot about literature nonetheless. And I really enjoyed the Seminar experience mainly because Prof. Weinstock is such an open-minded and non-condescending instructor, unlike my current FY-English professor... It's too bad I really don't like English, or else I might take another course with her.

I had Liz as my Lit Hum instructor 4 years ago. At the time, I thought she was not a good instructor, but most of the rest of my class liked her, so, hey.... In retrospect, I still think she was a poor instructor. Liz has very set very basic opinions about the texts. If you repeat these opinions, she loves you and thinks you are a genious. Note that I said her opinions are basic. This meant that those of us who talked a lot without having read the texts got high marks in her book. Those of us who didn't b.s. or who actually said something insightful were worse off. In my opinion, once Liz decided if she liked you, everything you said was gold. If not, well.... I felt that whenever I personally spoke to Liz she talked down to me both in terms of tone and content. She also did so when I spoke in class. One day when I made a very basic comment about a text, she walked over to me at the end of class and said "you did a very good job of the reading this week." I felt like a complete idiot. Whenever I or one of her other nonbeloved students tried to make more insightful comments, she told the class that she did not agree with us (and it got to the point where she was disagreeing with things I had learned as fact in other classes). Liz and I had a personality clash that made me HATE Lit Hum. But Liz has no idea that we had that clash. Her personality overtook the class and made it qu…

A nice lady, a terrible professor. I've got to agree with the last two reviews, she really doesn't know what's she doing. I don't know if she was forced to teach this class or what, but it was so obvious she didn't want to be there and didn't do any preparation before the class. I feel bad saying this, but I definitely wouldn't take another class with her. avoid.

This woman is indeed flaky and incapable of leading class discussion.

I haven't really made up my mind about Professor Weinstock. She's nice, and she fascilitates a good discussion. She got really excited about some of the material. I didn't feel that there was much direction in terms of what she expected on the papers. She left that to the writing fellows, and then I was always downgraded for not doing what she wanted...maybe that's not fair to say since it was my first college-level lit course, so something more is expected. However, when you can find that she is available, I advise discussing your paper idea with her first to get some feedback and focus. And participate in class--she likes that, and it can be really fun.

I am writing to disagree with the other reviews posted. Liz is a disaster of a professor, and you should all know the truth. Liz was ok first semester, but the story of second semester is exciting and I am going to enjoy recounting it. Liz was finishing her PhD in Medieval Literature during Spring '02. At that time, Liz missed a whopping 9 classes out of 11 (which turned out ok, because my girlfriend and I started the weekend with West End happy hour at 4 every week). I personally hate small group work, especially in Lit Hum, and we had to do it for the books that were Medieval...her specialty... when I was actually interested in hearing what she had to say! I think that she didn't actually read Montaigne, which is why we discussed it in groups. When we got to Don Q., no one had done the reading, so Liz gave some BS assignment that sent us to the library for hours. After writing 6 single spaced pages on the god-awful work, I received it back after classes had ended, and the staple hadn't even been so much as folded. For the final, due to her absences, we only knew 7/13 books, so it made the essay tough and the IDs damn near impossible. Whatever you got first semester was what you got second semester, it didn't matter what you turned in (I found out the hard way, because I tried much harder second semester with no effect). My final complaint about Liz is perhaps that she had no…

I definitely agree with the last reviewer: don't try anything vaguely creative or even slightly more challenging with Weinstock because she will only appear confused and annoyed. Granted she's young, but according to her she's been teaching for ten years, and STILL needs time to grow into her role as professor?. She appears friendly and enthusiastic at first, but if she was really so excited about the material she wouldn't end class fifteen minutes early every single time, if she didn't cancel it all together!Furthermore, her own insecurities are revealed through her EXTREMELY patronizing attitude and failure to faciliate discussion. Able and engaging professors usually run class over the time limit, instead, we were usually faced with awkward silences that would lead to Weinstock ending the class with "well, I don't want to beat a dead horse!." Oh yeah, and expect ZERO constructive criticism of your papers beyond comma insertions and anything challenging is a big turn off to her. (i.e. the big words in the last reviewer's paper) She means well, and maybe it's because survey classes aren't her forte AND she was sick this semester, but Professor Weinstock was boring, patronizing, and very uninsightful.

hey, this class is CRAPTASTIC. I really can't understand the people who don't see past Weinstock's pretense, the woman is in my opinion an idiot. (by the way, I honestly got an A in the class so it's not out of spite that I'm writing this, only to warn unsuspecting English majors) in response to the comments made by some of the other reviewers...personally, i dont really care if a professor is concerned about what's going on in my life outside of class...how about some inspiring commentary about the text? but no...boring, uninspired, insipid...i felt like i was back in middle school with some of the "discussion" that went on in that class...

a short close reading "practice" paper to begin, 2 papers w/writing fellow meetings and prof conferences afterward, and a final "creative" project. lots of reading, like any lit class.