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…
William Dunbar’s “My ladye with the mekle lippis,” is a parodic insult poem, possibly directed at Elen More or the other Black woman at the…
The book whose paragraph I quote, and whose name I forgot, is from Willie James Jennings’ The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race.…
One embarrassing mistake here: I used the German verb “heißen” [to mean or to be called] as modern relative of the Middle English “hight” [was…
