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Being Together Subversively, Outside In The University Of Hegemonic Affirmation And Repressive Violence, As Things Heat Up (Again), Jodi Melamed
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Obey, Consume, Gerry Canavan
Obey, Consume, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Science Fiction And/As Theology: Review Of Science Fiction Theology: Beauty And The Transformation Of The Sublime By Alan P.R. Gregory, Gerry Canavan
Science Fiction And/As Theology: Review Of Science Fiction Theology: Beauty And The Transformation Of The Sublime By Alan P.R. Gregory, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Death Immortalized, Gerry Canavan
Death Immortalized, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of La Chronique Anonyme Universelle: Reading And Writing History In Fifteenth-Century France, Elizaveta Strakhov
Review Of La Chronique Anonyme Universelle: Reading And Writing History In Fifteenth-Century France, Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
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Making Commitments To Racial Justice Actionable, Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, Beth Godbee, Neil Simpkins
Making Commitments To Racial Justice Actionable, Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, Beth Godbee, Neil Simpkins
English Faculty Research and Publications
In this article, we articulate a framework for making our commitments to racial justice actionable, a framework that moves from narrating confessional accounts to articulating our commitments and then acting on them through both self-work and work-with-others, a dialectic possibility we identify and explore. We model a method for moving beyond originary confessional narratives and engage in dialogue with “the willingness to be disturbed” (Wheatley, 2002), believing that disturbances are productive places from which we can more clearly articulate and act from our commitments. Drawing on our own experiences, we engage the political, systemic, and enduring nature of racism as …
Why Inquiry Matters: An Argument And Model For Inquiry-Based Writing Courses, Beth Godbee
Why Inquiry Matters: An Argument And Model For Inquiry-Based Writing Courses, Beth Godbee
English Faculty Research and Publications
This article considers the value and implications of inquiry-driven learning for secondary and postsecondary education. In response to ongoing interest in and the need to foster inquiry in English education, we share the course model of “Ethnography of the University.” This writing-intensive course asks students to become authors of their own educations; to identify problems facing the campus community; to conduct semester-long, original research projects; and to make proposals for change. Through conducting inquiry projects, students come to see themselves as writers with real audiences, to personalize an often-impersonal education, and to connect academic with everyday concerns. Two undergraduate researchers …
We Have Never Been Star Trek, Gerry Canavan
We Have Never Been Star Trek, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
"A Dread Mystery, Compelling Adoration": Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker, And Totality, Gerry Canavan
"A Dread Mystery, Compelling Adoration": Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker, And Totality, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
Using research undertaken at the Olaf Stapledon archive at the University of Liverpool, this article explores the tension between cosmopolitan optimism and cosmic pessimism that structures Stapledon's 1937 novel Star Maker, and asks whether the novel succeeds in solving the philosophical problems that first spurred Stapledon to write it. I conclude, unhappily, that it does not: while an impressive achievement, and despite a surface optimism, the book's confrontation with infinity, totality, and the sublime is ultimately depressive rather than generative of a felicitous cosmological order, requiring Stapledon to try again and again to somehow solve this philosophical conundrum in …
Review Of Kingsman: The Secret Service, Gerry Canavan
Review Of Kingsman: The Secret Service, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Proceduralism, Predisposing, Poesis: Forms Of Institutionality, In The Making, Jodi Melamed
Proceduralism, Predisposing, Poesis: Forms Of Institutionality, In The Making, Jodi Melamed
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of In Their Own Words: Practices Of Quotation In Early Medieval History-Writing By Jeanette Beer, Elizaveta Strakhov
Review Of In Their Own Words: Practices Of Quotation In Early Medieval History-Writing By Jeanette Beer, Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
The One Constant, C. J. Hribal
The One Constant, C. J. Hribal
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Challenging Classical Legacy: Virginia Woolf' Mythical Method In To The Lighthouse, Alex Rucka
Challenging Classical Legacy: Virginia Woolf' Mythical Method In To The Lighthouse, Alex Rucka
Maria Dittman Library Research Competition: Student Award Winners
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Don’T Point That Gun At My Mum: Geriatric Zombies, Gerry Canavan
Don’T Point That Gun At My Mum: Geriatric Zombies, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Introduction To Colloquium: John Shirley’S Cambridge, Trinity College, Ms R.3.20 And The Culture Of The Anthology In Late Medieval England, Megan Cook, Elizaveta Strakhov
Introduction To Colloquium: John Shirley’S Cambridge, Trinity College, Ms R.3.20 And The Culture Of The Anthology In Late Medieval England, Megan Cook, Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Hundred Years War In Literature, 1337-1600, Elizaveta Strakhov
Review Of The Hundred Years War In Literature, 1337-1600, Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Langland And The French Tradition: Introduction, R. D. Perry, Elizaveta Strakhov
Langland And The French Tradition: Introduction, R. D. Perry, Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Science Fiction, Gerry Canavan
Science Fiction, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
Science fiction (SF) emerges as a distinct literary and cultural genre out of a familiar set of world-famous texts ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) to Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek (1966–) to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008–) that have, in aggregate, generated a colossal, communal archive of alternate worlds and possible future histories. SF’s dialectical interplay between utopian optimism and apocalyptic pessimism can be felt across the genre’s now centuries-long history, only intensifying in the 20th century as the clash between humankind’s growing technological capabilities and its ability to use those powers safely or wisely has reached existential-threat propositions, not …
Code Violations: Chicago Review In The 1990s, Angela Sorby
Code Violations: Chicago Review In The 1990s, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Dijon, Burgundy, Elizaveta Strakhov, Jean-Pascal Pouzet
Dijon, Burgundy, Elizaveta Strakhov, Jean-Pascal Pouzet
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Doktorvater, Gerry Canavan
Doktorvater, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Decoding Each Other Through Coding: Sharing Our Unlikely Research Collaboration, Beth Godbee, Adrianne Wojcik
Decoding Each Other Through Coding: Sharing Our Unlikely Research Collaboration, Beth Godbee, Adrianne Wojcik
English Faculty Research and Publications
This narrative is a story of our cross-disciplinary collaboration. While teachers and researchers in English studies often share stories of teaching, we too infrequently share those of research. The consequence is that the everyday, lived experiences of conducting inquiry and doing research—the key intellectual activities in all learning— become muted, if not hidden. In response, we relate here our journey of teaching and learning the method of qualitative coding.
After Humanity: Science Fiction After Extinction In Kurt Vonnegut And Clifford D. Simak, Gerry Canavan
After Humanity: Science Fiction After Extinction In Kurt Vonnegut And Clifford D. Simak, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
This article takes up the question of whether and to what extent humanistic values can survive confrontation with the "deep time" of the Anthropocene, specifically with the inevitability of human extinction. In particular, I focus on representations of human extinction and the emergence of sapient successor species in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895). Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos (1985). and Clifford D. Simak's City (1952), identifying in the latter two submerged humanisms that belie the surface anti-humanism and cosmic pessimism of the novels .
Women Poets, Child Readers, Angela Sorby
Women Poets, Child Readers, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
‘But Who Will Bell The Cat?’: Deschamps, Brinton, Langland, And The Hundred Years’ War, Elizaveta Strakhov
‘But Who Will Bell The Cat?’: Deschamps, Brinton, Langland, And The Hundred Years’ War, Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
This essay investigates the mutual use of the ‘belling the cat’ fable in Langland’s Prologue to Piers Plowman, in Thomas Brinton’s sermon from 1376, and in a cluster of poems about the Hundred Years War by Langland’s French contemporary, Eustache Deschamps. Although the fable was popular in their day, only these three authors offer it a specifically topical application, and each, the essay argues, uses it to critique administrative dysfunction and excessive taxation during the Hundred Years War. By teasing out this Anglo-French political context, the essay offers a new reading of Langland’s mouse’s exhortation of inaction before the …
Review Of The Hundred Years War In Literature, 1337-1600 By Joanna Bellis, Elizaveta Strakhov
Review Of The Hundred Years War In Literature, 1337-1600 By Joanna Bellis, Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Common Precedents: The Presentness Of The Past In Victorian Law And Fiction By Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Melissa J. Ganz
Review Of Common Precedents: The Presentness Of The Past In Victorian Law And Fiction By Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Melissa J. Ganz
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Tending To One’S Garden: Deschamps’S ‘Ballade To Chaucer’ Reconsidered, Elizaveta Strakhov
Tending To One’S Garden: Deschamps’S ‘Ballade To Chaucer’ Reconsidered, Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
What Should Be In That Caesar: The Question Of Julius Caesar's Greatness, John E. Curran Jr.
What Should Be In That Caesar: The Question Of Julius Caesar's Greatness, John E. Curran Jr.
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.