I’ve written about William Dunbar’s “My ladye with the mekle lippis” twice before, first, for a session at the Medieval Academy Conference in Philadelphia on…
Among the now famous feline musings of the first chapter of Derrida’s The Animal that therefore I am is this one, about the cat’s name:…
Fables are short, self-consciously fictitious narratives generally furnished with a moral interpretation, either before the fable (a promythium) or after it (an epimythium). They often travel in…
My first post for my “Reason, Freedom, and Animality” seminar explored the Stoic paradox that “all fools are slaves, and all wise men are free”…
Everything we can think of wants to be free. Boundaries yearn to blur; rigor aches to relax; structures shudder, hoping to be undermined. Flows will…
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…
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…
