[your presentations should be about 7 minutes long. This one is perhaps a little short of that. That’s fine. For presentations, it’s always better to…
For my Brooklyn College History and Literature Course on Race and Racialization, discussion of Harrison’s On the General Constitution of the Bodies of the Britains,…
For English 7800, Fall 2020. Caleb Smith’s “Disciplines of Attention in a Secular Age” is, in part, about what we do as literary scholars. Should…
The Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in Brussels has newly posted many digitized manuscripts. This link might work. I poked at a manuscript of Jean Miélot’s…
Harrison Bergeron is Black. I don’t mean that the story says he is, explicitly. But it doesn’t say he’s white either. All we know about…
The new Emma film, by Autumn de Wilde, is notable for its two butts. As the first is Mr. Knightley’s, and the second Emma’s, we…
Taught The Book of Margery Kempe again, this time for my MA version of my Irrational Animals course. Perhaps the chief surprise in my fourth? fifth? time…
Teaching an MA course on Irrationality, and last night, we did some Foucault and used an inadequate translation of Hoccleve’s Complaint (which I’m just going…
Last post for my Intro to Medieval Studies class, and several days late at that. For a record of part of the seminar’s conversation, see…
William of Auvergne (Bishop of Paris, 1228 to his death in 1249) was a key figure in Christianizing material flowing into Latin Christian theological philosophy…
