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Beauty And The Beastly Prime Minister, John J. Su
Beauty And The Beastly Prime Minister, John J. Su
English Faculty Research and Publications
This essay examines the so-called “turn to beauty” in British fiction since the 1990s as a response to the political and social consequences of Thatcherism. Focusing primarily on four texts—Jonathan Coe’s What a Carve Up! (1994), Julian Barnes’s England, England, (1998), Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty (2004), and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (2005)—this essay argues that conceptions of beauty and beastliness delineate possible boundaries to the neoliberalism with which Thatcherism is associated. Two distinct phases of the beauty/beastliness rhetoric are identified: an ironized utopianism in the 1990s; an ambivalent embrace of global humanism in the 2000s.
Review Of Rhetoric Of Respect: Recognizing Change At A Community Writing Center By Tiffany Rousculp, Beth Godbee
Review Of Rhetoric Of Respect: Recognizing Change At A Community Writing Center By Tiffany Rousculp, Beth Godbee
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
“I’D Rather Be In Afghanistan”: Antinomies Of Battle: Los Angeles, Gerry Canavan
“I’D Rather Be In Afghanistan”: Antinomies Of Battle: Los Angeles, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
This article reads Battle: Los Angeles (2011) against the grain to argue that the film possesses an antiwar undertow running unexpectedly counter to its surface-level pro-military politics. The article uses the antinomy structuring Battle: Los Angeles as the opportunity to explore the pro- and anti-war politics of science fiction alien invasion film more generally, as well as consider the role of cooperation with the military in Hollywood blockbusters. The article closes with a Jamesonian reading of “the army”: as a kind of utopia as registered by mainstream cultural texts like Battle: Los Angeles.
Review Of First Semester: Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, And The Challenge Of Middle Ground By Jessica Restaino, Margaret Briggs-Dineen, Wendy Fall, Beth Godbee, Danielle Klein, Laura Linder-Scholer, Alyssa Mcgrath, Michael Stock, Sarah Thompson
Review Of First Semester: Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, And The Challenge Of Middle Ground By Jessica Restaino, Margaret Briggs-Dineen, Wendy Fall, Beth Godbee, Danielle Klein, Laura Linder-Scholer, Alyssa Mcgrath, Michael Stock, Sarah Thompson
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
High Risk, High Yield: Embodied Facilitation For Racial Justice In Writing Workshops Across The Disciplines, Beth Godbee, Jasmine Kar Tang
High Risk, High Yield: Embodied Facilitation For Racial Justice In Writing Workshops Across The Disciplines, Beth Godbee, Jasmine Kar Tang
English Faculty Research and Publications
If one of the lifelines of WAC involves facilitating workshops with/for faculty, TAs, tutors, and others across campus, then how can we better attend to issues of racial diversity? This interactive session looks at the intersection of the writing center pedagogies and critical race studies. Featuring reflection on a series of movement-based workshops, the co-authors argue for a high-risk, high-yield model of facilitation, one that requires awareness of social locations, identities, and histories.
Dangerous Associations, Jodi Melamed
Dangerous Associations, Jodi Melamed
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of John Brunner By Jad Smith, Gerry Canavan
Review Of John Brunner By Jad Smith, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
The Irish Protestant Imaginary: The Cultural Contexts For The Gothic Chapbooks Published By Bennett Dugdale, 1800-1805, Diane Hoeveler
The Irish Protestant Imaginary: The Cultural Contexts For The Gothic Chapbooks Published By Bennett Dugdale, 1800-1805, Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Missing Octavia: A Review Of Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, And Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan
Missing Octavia: A Review Of Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, And Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
D. H. Lawrence’S ‘Men Must Work And Women As Well’ In Aldous Huxley’S Brave New World., Nicholas S. Boone
D. H. Lawrence’S ‘Men Must Work And Women As Well’ In Aldous Huxley’S Brave New World., Nicholas S. Boone
English Faculty Research and Publications
The article presents an examination of an allusion to the work of the 20th-century English author D. H. Lawrence within the 1929 novel "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley. Introductory details are offered relating the friendship between Huxley and Lawrence. Specific instances of references to Lawrence's essay "Men Must Work and Women as Well," within Huxley's dystopian novel are then identified and explained.
The Heroine, The Abbey And Popular Romantic Textuality: The Romance Of The Forest (1791), Diane Hoeveler
The Heroine, The Abbey And Popular Romantic Textuality: The Romance Of The Forest (1791), Diane Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Science Fiction In The United States, Gerry Canavan
Science Fiction In The United States, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
“Lifted Moments”: Emily Dickinson, Hymn Revision, And The Revival Music Meme-Plex, Sarah Wadsworth
“Lifted Moments”: Emily Dickinson, Hymn Revision, And The Revival Music Meme-Plex, Sarah Wadsworth
English Faculty Research and Publications
This essay focuses on Dickinson’s poem “The Soul has Bandaged moments - ” (Fr360), placing it in relation to several interrelated hymns (Independent, Unitarian, and gospel) that share a common pattern of imagery deriving from the popular “Crowning Day” motif. Through a linked sequence of paired readings, it shows how connections between two loosely related texts sharpen and become meaningful when the two texts are brought into dialog with a third text. Juxtaposing three overlapping pairs of lyrics—first by Daniel Webster Whittle and William Channing Gannett, then by Philip Doddridge and Emily Dickinson, and, finally, by Gannett and Dickinson (with …
Readings For Racial Justice: A Project Of The Iwca Sig On Antiracism Activism, Beth Godbee, Bobbi Olson
Readings For Racial Justice: A Project Of The Iwca Sig On Antiracism Activism, Beth Godbee, Bobbi Olson
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
“When The Cup Has Been Drained”: Addiction And Recovery In The Wind In The Willows, Sarah Wadsworth
“When The Cup Has Been Drained”: Addiction And Recovery In The Wind In The Willows, Sarah Wadsworth
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
The Cathedral/Basilica Of Saint Louis, King Of France, Tyler Farrell
The Cathedral/Basilica Of Saint Louis, King Of France, Tyler Farrell
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
“If The Engine Ever Stops, We’D All Die”: Snowpiercer And Necrofuturism, Gerry Canavan
“If The Engine Ever Stops, We’D All Die”: Snowpiercer And Necrofuturism, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
Applying Mark Fisher’s “capitalist realism” and Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee’s “necrocapitalism” to the study of sf, this article reads the post-apocalyptic French comic Le Transperceneige (1982) and its film adaptation Snowpiercer (2014) as critiques of necrofuturist visions of the future. Necrofuturism posits a future that is doomed to continue modern capitalism’s unsustainable and immoral practices even as those practices become more and more destructive and self-defeating; films such as Snowpiercer interrupt this well-rehearsed vision of a world of universal death to open the mind to new possibilities for alternative futures. Key to Snowpiercer’s critique of necrofuturism is its depiction of …
"Something Nightmares Are From": Metacommentary In Joss Whedon's The Cabin In The Woods, Gerry Canavan
"Something Nightmares Are From": Metacommentary In Joss Whedon's The Cabin In The Woods, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
American Readers And Their Novels, Amy Blair
American Readers And Their Novels, Amy Blair
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
The Legacy Of France: “Mon Semblable, Mon Frère!”: Review Of Britain, France And The Gothic, 1764–1820: The Impact Of Terror And The Fantastic And European Gothic: History, Literature And The French Revolution, Diane Long Hoeveler
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Retrofutures And Petrofutures: Oil, Scarcity, Limit, Gerry Canavan
Retrofutures And Petrofutures: Oil, Scarcity, Limit, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Far Beyond The Star Pit: Samuel R. Delany, Gerry Canavan
Far Beyond The Star Pit: Samuel R. Delany, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Diversity, Jodi Melamed
Diversity, Jodi Melamed
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
“Macgyver-Meets-Dr. Ruth”: Science Journalism And The Material Positioning Of Dr. Carla Pugh, Lillian Campbell
“Macgyver-Meets-Dr. Ruth”: Science Journalism And The Material Positioning Of Dr. Carla Pugh, Lillian Campbell
English Faculty Research and Publications
This article examines the rhetorical consequences of foregrounding female scientists' materials through an analysis of seven news articles on Dr. Carla Pugh, a surgeon who designs medical patient simulators. Journalists foreground Pugh's materials by positioning her as both “MacGyver,” creatively assembling simulators from everyday objects, and “Dr. Ruth,” willingly discussing intimate parts. These positions avoid focusing on Pugh's personal life or body but still ultimately gender her and her work. The MacGyver position associates Pugh with gendered activities, objects, and spaces while undermining her affiliation with the technical aspects of design. Meanwhile, the Dr. Ruth position implies Pugh's knowledge comes …
Disciplined Play: American Children's Poetry To 1920, Angela Sorby
Disciplined Play: American Children's Poetry To 1920, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
Children's poetry is barely studied and barely taught, except as an instrumental teaching tool in colleges of education. American children's poetry, like American literature more generally, took on distinctive characteristics after about 1820, as more work was written and published by Americans. The practice of addressing adults and children together in volumes of poetry spanned the whole nineteenth century, although it was slightly more common during the antebellum period. Most scholarly work on the child like qualities of women authors stresses that, although the voice seems innocent, it is really an adult voice making an adult point. The few poems …