There are many earlier versions of the King of Tars story, and to my knowledge, none have yet been translated into modern English (or any other…
Fredric Jameson’s chapter “On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act” from his The Political Unconscious returns often, and surprisingly, to the Middle Ages. As he argues…
Here is sample presentation. Note that I quickly summarize Orlemanski’s argument, provide a key quote, and then connect her work to my own research interests,…
Why Garlick, Molyes, and Porrets have white roots, deep green leaves, and blacke seeds? Why severall docks, and sorts of Rhubarb with yellow roots, send…
[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…
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…
