Nearly two years ago, I announced: For several years I’ve wanted to write an essay on the way that ‘mute beasts’ communicate through gesture in…
Thinking about animals and violence and the middle ages tends to follow one of two routes. The first holds that medieval people were more “brutal”…
It is not uncommonly said that habitats generated by internal combustion engines and electronics lack the crowds of animals common to what are often called…
While doing some philological noodling with the word “fabulous” (because what else does one do on sabbatical?), I found, in this entry in the Middle…
National Squirrel Appreciation Day came and went, as it always does, with me in the yard, hiding my nuts, and missing my chance, again, to…
Cross-posted to ITM. I’m in Iceland for the New Chaucer Society Conference. Today’s papers concluded with a whale watch, expressly framed by the excursion group as…
As recycling kingpin Chen Guangbiao toured the neighborhood around Tribeca’s New York City Rescue Mission, he whipped out a $100 bill and tried to hand…
Sri Lankan oysters (?), BN fr. 22971 by KARL STEEL Hey gang! I’ve just (finally) submitted my contribution for Steve Mentz’s forthcoming Oceanic New York anthology.…
I also provided links to some guidance on conference going: here is a good guide on how to write abstracts, how to identify conferences, and how…
Some of the pleasant cows of Bréhat. by KARL STEEL Nearly two years ago (!), I outlined a prospectus for my next book. You’ll have…
