> This particular asshole appears to be a textbook-writing professor in a fifth-rate university (University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, anybody?) who writes things with bullshit-sounding titles like Amazonia in the Arts: Ecocriticism versus the Economics of Deforestation.

Yep, sounds like that teacher: the one who writes awful textbooks and mandates those books for his courses, shitting a new one every year to ensure a steady income stream.