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From “A New Hope” To No Hope At All: “Star Wars,” Tolkien And The Sinister And Depressing Reality Of Expanded Universes: When Fantasy Sagas Never End, We See The Cycles Of Brutality And Totalitarianism That Fuel Them Don't, Either, Gerry Canavan Dec 2015

From “A New Hope” To No Hope At All: “Star Wars,” Tolkien And The Sinister And Depressing Reality Of Expanded Universes: When Fantasy Sagas Never End, We See The Cycles Of Brutality And Totalitarianism That Fuel Them Don't, Either, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Carrying On Like A Madman: Insanity And Responsibility In Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Melissa J. Ganz Dec 2015

Carrying On Like A Madman: Insanity And Responsibility In Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Melissa J. Ganz

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Tasting And Testing Books: Good Housekeeping’S Literary Canon For The 1920s And 1930s, Amy Blair Dec 2015

Tasting And Testing Books: Good Housekeeping’S Literary Canon For The 1920s And 1930s, Amy Blair

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Capital As Artificial Intelligence, Gerry Canavan Nov 2015

Capital As Artificial Intelligence, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

This article examines science-fictional allegorizations of Soviet-style planned economies, financial markets, autonomous trading algorithms, and global capitalism writ large as nonhuman artificial intelligences, focussing primarily on American science fiction of the Cold War period. Key fictional texts discussed include Star Trek, Isaac Asimov's Machine stories, Terminator, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952), Charles Stross's Accelerando (2005), and the short stories of Philip K. Dick. The final section of the article discusses Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 (2012) within the contemporary political context of accelerationist anticapitalism, whose advocates propose working with “the machines” rather than against them.


The Octavia E. Butler Papers, Gerry Canavan Nov 2015

The Octavia E. Butler Papers, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Ecology 101, Gerry Canavan Nov 2015

Ecology 101, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of The Altar At Home: Sentimental Literature And Nineteenth-Century American Religion By Claudia Stokes, Angela Sorby Nov 2015

Review Of The Altar At Home: Sentimental Literature And Nineteenth-Century American Religion By Claudia Stokes, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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This Old House: Leaving The Empty Nest, C. J. Hribal Oct 2015

This Old House: Leaving The Empty Nest, C. J. Hribal

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Spaces, Alleys, And Other Lacunae: Emma Hardy's Late Writings Restored, Jon Singleton Oct 2015

Spaces, Alleys, And Other Lacunae: Emma Hardy's Late Writings Restored, Jon Singleton

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of The Difficult Art Of Giving: Patronage, Philanthropy, And The American Literary Market By Francesca Sawaya, Sarah Wadsworth Sep 2015

Review Of The Difficult Art Of Giving: Patronage, Philanthropy, And The American Literary Market By Francesca Sawaya, Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Buying Time, C. J. Hribal Jul 2015

Buying Time, C. J. Hribal

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Review: Reinventing The Wheel, Gerry Canavan Jul 2015

Review: Reinventing The Wheel, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Stretching Beyond The Semester: Undergraduate Research, Ethnography Of The University, And Proposals For Local Change, Beth Godbee, Jessica Bazan, Megan Glise, Ariel Gonzalez, Katelyn Quigley, Brittany White Jun 2015

Stretching Beyond The Semester: Undergraduate Research, Ethnography Of The University, And Proposals For Local Change, Beth Godbee, Jessica Bazan, Megan Glise, Ariel Gonzalez, Katelyn Quigley, Brittany White

English Faculty Research and Publications

This article focuses on undergraduate research and mentoring through the lens of an “Ethnography of the University” course that engages students in writing and researching for local change. At our institution (Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), “Ethnography of the University” is a writing-intensive English course in which students conduct semester-long, original, mixed-method research projects about some aspect of their undergraduate experience. Students move from asking questions of interest and importance to the campus community through stages of data collection and analysis and toward final reporting through multiple means: (1) article-length papers, (2) in-class presentations, and (3) research posters. Students present …


Body + Power + Justice: Movement-Based Workshops For Critical Tutor Education, Beth Godbee, Moira Ozias, Jasmine Kar Tang Apr 2015

Body + Power + Justice: Movement-Based Workshops For Critical Tutor Education, Beth Godbee, Moira Ozias, Jasmine Kar Tang

English Faculty Research and Publications

In this participatory article (with suggested activities, check-ins with the body, and freewriting), we use collaborative narrative inquiry to unpack considerations that underlie the planning, facilitation, and processing of a series of movement-based workshops. Critiquing liberal multiculturalist approaches in writing centers, we argue against the all-too-common flattening of differences and think through how embodiment helps us "work the hyphens" (Fine, 1998) or find "third ways" (Soja, 1996) that break open new possibilities for working and learning together toward equity and racial justice. In contrast to role-playing scenarios that characterize many tutor education practices, we suggest that centering the body through …


You Think You Know The Story: Novelty, Repetition, And Lovecraft In Whedon And Goddard’S The Cabin In The Woods, Gerry Canavan Jan 2015

You Think You Know The Story: Novelty, Repetition, And Lovecraft In Whedon And Goddard’S The Cabin In The Woods, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Anything Could Happen (And We Would Believe It), Gerry Canavan Jan 2015

Anything Could Happen (And We Would Believe It), Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Past The Bloom: Aging And Beauty In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Stephanie M. Eddleman Jan 2015

Past The Bloom: Aging And Beauty In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Stephanie M. Eddleman

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of British Children’S Poetry In The Romantic Era: Verse, Riddle, And Rhyme By Donelle Ruwe, Angela Sorby Jan 2015

Review Of British Children’S Poetry In The Romantic Era: Verse, Riddle, And Rhyme By Donelle Ruwe, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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“Hanging Out”: Cultivating Writing Groups Online, Tanya R. Cochran, Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, Beth Godbee Jan 2015

“Hanging Out”: Cultivating Writing Groups Online, Tanya R. Cochran, Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, Beth Godbee

English Faculty Research and Publications

In this narrative, we describe the process and value of meeting in online writing groups via google hangouts. These groups offer a range of benefits, including just-in-time support, mentoring, and processing of the clamorous, eventful life of the writer. These groups also serve as a life-giving writing environment where we can think out loud and share spoken and written ideas with engaged, supportive, and sympathetic readers.


Freedom And Fetters: Nuptial Law In Burney’S The Wanderer, Melissa J. Ganz Jan 2015

Freedom And Fetters: Nuptial Law In Burney’S The Wanderer, Melissa J. Ganz

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


At Home In The Stranger's House: Poetic Revision And Spiritual Practice, Angela Sorby Jan 2015

At Home In The Stranger's House: Poetic Revision And Spiritual Practice, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Poems Of "Ch": Taxonomizing Literary Tradition, Elizaveta Strakhov Jan 2015

The Poems Of "Ch": Taxonomizing Literary Tradition, Elizaveta Strakhov

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.