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,…
I like to give me students something to beat up on, so I started class today with this sentence from Cliffs Notes: In Cincinnati, far…
If you were up at 9am on a Siena Monday, and decided to head out to the train station, you might have heard the latest…
by KARL STEEL First! More zombies! Second, thanks very much to our guest bloggers (and to Jeffrey’s organizational moxie) for what’s become a brief history…
During Steven Kruger’s plenary at SEMA, I got to thinking about the dynamic of supersessionarity in St. Erkenwald. I’m sure K. Biddick has handled this…
Where have I been? Apart from surviving the shock of the semester’s start, and suffering the siege of many writing projects, apparently all due at…
In her post below, Mary Kate writes: On the final page of the book, CD defines “getting medieval” as this: “using ideas of the past,…
I’ve a longer post planned, but for now, I offer this, a key moment (for me) in Getting Medieval, one I marked with “a passage…
Maybe you know what to do with the Arthurian opening of the Wife of Bath’s tale. I don’t, not quite, but then again, I’ve only…
Today, a brief genealogical foray slid into an hours-long expedition culminating in Groton, Suffolk, a minor town once lorded over by Bury St. Edmunds, and…