A preview of a talk I’m giving for the British Animal Studies Network meeting in late April, 2018, in Glasgow. The key challenge of spontaneous…
This semester is my first time teaching the Canterbury Tales to doctoral students. To rise to their level, I decided manuscripts would be a big part of…
Here’s David Perry’s excellent letter. Here’s a summary of the present situation. Here’s evidence of Fulton Brown’s creepiness. UPDATE: President Bradley has issued a statement…
Yesterday, a reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education contacted me, and my co-bloggers, for an interview for the Rachel Fulton Brown situation. I begged…
Yesterday, the Brooklyn Museum opened Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America. While it does too much to let the police off the hook…
Further Sabbatical Fruits – the first third of what’s bound to be the longest chapter of Book 2, Chapter 2, On Isolated and Feral Children.…
At the tail end of this Europe trip and thinking about talking French. Many of you, me included, have had spoken language mastery for the…
by KARL STEEL My (first) book came out in 2011, the product of a dissertation that took some 4 years to write. Time to degree…
Chapter 3 of the Book Project now exists in a start-to-finish form, suitable for submitting, with Chapter 5, on oysters, for whatever nefarious purposes presses…
The opening to a forthcoming essay, “Nothing to Lose: Logsex and Genital Injury in Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations.” [content note: sexual coercion and…