Today, my “Problems in Posthumanism” graduate seminar worked on Alexander and Dindimus, Montaigne on Cannibals, Petrarch on the Canary Islands (well, we at least read it),…
If you teach Chaucer, you’re likely more than familiar with this bit from the Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Wommennes conseils been ful ofte colde; Wommannes counseil…
by KARL STEEL Continue reading Mary Kate Hurley below, and join the conversation in the comments. This evening’s master’s course was supposed to discuss Geraldine Heng,…
You probably know Behn’s Oroonoko better than I do. I’m reading/teaching (or that teaching/reading?) it for the first time. Yesterday, we focused on this: All that Love…
What Geraldine Barnes called the “nineteenth-century ‘theatre’ of Vinland” began in the 1830s with the publication of Carl Christian Rafn’s Antiquitates Americanae and reached its apogee in the 1890s as a kind of counter-programming to the celebration of Columbus’s landing. The mania offered its adherents two things, a white heritage and a specifically medieval, embattled white heritage, while also, as I’ll conclude, obligating them to protect their whiteness, making them prisoners of their own concocted identity.
I’m one of several people who has been trying, for several months, to get Facebook to take down a page devoted to promoting the Ritual…
Cross posted to In the Middle. A couple of days ago, World News Daily gave us this: “USA: Viking Ship Discovered Near Mississippi River.” While…
Cross-posted on In The Middle. Go there to leave comments, if you want. Maybe you saw an article recently about renewed attempts to change the unpleasant name…
Had what I’m sure is a genius idea about the origins of modern racism in medieval chivalric ideology that I’m bound to blog on soon.…
Here’s the tweet in question: @erasmuslijn holy shit, that piece. Here’s one white leftist who knows plenty of poor people in his family and race…
