When I was still a grad student, I got my blogging start at In the Middle, in 2006, as a guest at what had started…
Amid the discussion in Goussin of Metz’s Image du Monde of various kinds of water — fresh, salty, black, poisonous, and so on — is…
Recommended Reading: THE ASSET ECONOMY (Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, and Martijn Konings), three Australian sociologists on the peculiar characteristics of modern economic inequality. Moving beyond…
The hunting and heraldry compilation known as The Boke of Saint Albans, printed in 1486, included in its 1496 edition the Treatyse of Fysshynge with…
Edinburgh architecture and profits from slavery; Walter Benjamin and ‘documents of barbarism’; definitions of race from Geraldine Heng and Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Max Weber (W-E-B-E-R,…
Just wrote my course description for my Spring 2021 seminar at the CUNY Grad Center (English Department). It’s down there. Are graduate programs in NYC…
Because of my work on medieval oysters, people have sent me, for years now, the same image of an angry medieval oyster. There it is,…
Despite what the powerpoint says, this is actually CLASS 11. on Oroonoko, second half: a brief consideration of the paintings of Dalton Paula; on changing…
On Aphra Behn’s 1688 novel, thinking about genre, the rise of English involvement in transatlantic slavery, the histories of racialization, and the complexities of royalist…
