I was asked to speak at this. Here’s my speech. Good evening everyone. I’m so honored to be a part of this. I thought I’d…
My paper for the Sewanee 2026 conference. For the session on “Dialects of Resistance and Refuge” (or is that Dialectics?). I’m concerned today with “dehumanization.”…
For Session 28. The Papers: Alex Climaldi, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Turbulent Voice: Protest, Fugitivity, and Noise in Gower’s Vox Clamantis” Andrew Stone, The Graduate…
— (edited today feb 8 to correct framing of co-writing, you’ll see) Although I would call myself a posthumanist, I am often misrecognized as an…
108 or so in 2023; ~ 100 in 2024; only 90 this year. More teaching than usual! That’s the culprit. For 2024, here. For 2023,…
Here is 2024. And here is 2023. Big Books in Rough Order of Bigness Samuel Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young Lady…
Among the many tales compiled in the 30,000+ lines of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis is the story of Daphne and Phoebus (III.1681-1728). Gower may have…
Clarissa is a long novel: 537 letters, nearly as many words as all the assembled volumes of Knausgaard’s My Struggle. We would want a good…
The introduction to Christopher Abram’s Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature, “Ecocritism and Old Norse,” comprises two or even three…
Iyko Day’s “Eco-Criticism and Primitive Accumulation in Indigenous Studies” develops Rosa Luxembourg’s intervention into old Marxist historical narratives – narratives, which, as Day observes, Marx…
