Or Confederacy of Dunces.

He publicly exposes himself, via email and comments, all over the place. He wants people to read his stuff.

His work is as interesting as it is bizarre. It's less about "exposing" and more about "understanding."

Are you kidding? This is absolutely part of the story. I'm very happy to know who it was.

He wants folks to read his work. It's absolutely easy to find him from the scant information provided in the article. This is not a doxxing.

> “Your entire profession,” he wrote back, “has preferred to bury their heads in the sand and refuse to credit my literary/creative genius and/or the outrageous pedagogical stupidity that you have all implicitly supported. And either way I just want you to know that you need to think about the price of this behavior. That one day people will know that your profession is either incredibly inept and or outrageously dishonest. And either way that likely will translate into a crisis for the humanities that you likely are not nearly prepared for. So just be warned. And understand that I will be continuing to work to bring about this very unpleasant and undesirable scenario.”

I'm basing a character on this kind of fellow! Excellent reference material.

I would call it "annotation" maybe. He didn't write anything.

https://sites.google.com/site/eternitypromised/

This isn't outing someone that's trying to be discreet. He's pushing his agenda, with his full name, and is proud of it.

The additional context that this isn't a single incident is important. He spends a great deal of time emailing anyone that has anything to do with writing and goading them into reading his theory.