I was sure I’d wet myself during the flight. I apologized to Steve: “What’s that awful smell. Is it me?” Like an old man in…
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…
by KARL STEEL First, of course, read Jeffrey on Allan Mitchell’s Becoming Human, which I’m co-endorsing as a masterpiece. I’m promising you my own, briefer…
What you see above is most of today. We started by talking about Kzoo; everyone’s encouraged to review the #kzoo2014 twitter hashtag, and to get a…
Douai Bibliotheque municipale 887, 52v by KARL STEEL I had the fortune recently to be a keynote speaker at St John’s University Graduate English Conference, whose…
BN Latin 4846 and a nicely placed PLACUIT by KARL STEEL First of all, please read, if you haven’t already, the Babel fundraising pitch below,…
We heard about Dorothy Kim’s recent talk at NYU about “Pleasure in the Digital Archive.” By way of introducing theArchive of Early Middle English, and…
We started with a recent NY Times editorial, “Why Nothing is Truly Alive.” Illustrating his point with Strandbeest, Ferris Jabr argues: “Not only is defining life…
