At a meeting of the faculty yesterday, we heard a presentation on the question of asking our union to support divestment from the state of…
I was part of THE PURGE: FIRST SACRIFICE today. Our assignment? Rant about something in our field. Don’t punch down. Hard for me because I…
On the Unsuitability of Human Dogs: Medieval Reason, Falling Sheep, and The Limits of Clever Animals
Giving a talk at LSU on Friday October 4. The text has material (improved) from the first chapter on my (knock on wood) next book.…
This is my paper I had thought I was going to write for Session 134, “Theorizing Comparative Animalities,” at the 59th International Congress on Medieval…
This is my paper for Session 134, “Theorizing Comparative Animalities,” at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, in, as always, Kalamazoo, organized by Randy…
I love recommending reading for people’s projects, and I wish people would do the same for me! Here’s what I what remember recommending at Sewanee…
For the session “Voicing Mysticism & Gender” organized by Mariah Min (Brown University) (what follows is a draft of a portion of the first chapter…
My response to 3 papers, for ‘Fictions of Representation,’ organized by Shoshana Adler (Vanderbilt) – Taylor Cowdery, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Indentured Persons: Perkin Revelour and Eleanor…
Yesterday, I was rereading the parable from Luke 16, of the Rich Man and Lazarus, perhaps more commonly known as Dives and Pauper. A rich…
Last night our slow Proust club — 50 pages a month — finished book 2. Naturally, we focused on the last sentence. Here it is:…
