User:Professor SWILUA

Aphrodite Sagalassos Tongeren

Professor SWILUA regularly requires her writing and rhetoric students to submit new, quality, pages to Wikipedia. The pages are required to conform with Wikipedia pillars, to present new and useful information to Wikipedia users, and to rely solely on good sources--with a strong emphasis on peer-reviewed sources from academic journals.

Professor SWILUA has been a university professor for more than thirteen years, though not always known by that name. She received a PhD in writing from the University of Wales and is an active participant in published discourse.

"SWILUA" is an alter-ego, created by a colleague and presented as a way to playfully assert professorial authority. In other words, it is a very serious joke. It is short for "She Who Is Like Unto Aphrodite," and is pronounced "Swill-oo-ah." In practice, students have generally preferred the title "Professor SWILUA" over her more traditional, "real," title. Professor SWILUA cannot provide a reasonable explanation for this fact.

In spite of popular depictions of Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, Professor SWILUA has not, nor does she ever intend, to teach, write, grade, or appear in any realm remotely public, without adequate clothing. Indeed, because she is a “persona” versus a “complete” human, the latter of which is subject to utterly undignified banalities such as bathing, she reserves the right to rule that Professor SWILUA, as a mirror of deity, itself, will never, ever, for any reason save fire (and even then...) remove her clothing. Ever. (What her more human counterpart must deign to endure is none of her concern.) Ultimately, Professor SWILUA considers the equation of beauty with clothing-deficiency to be a flawed tautology. She supports the Keatian idea that "'beauty is truth, truth beauty'--that is all."