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Writing Centers & The Dark Warehouse University: Generative Ai, Three Human Advantages, Joe Essid Dec 2023

Writing Centers & The Dark Warehouse University: Generative Ai, Three Human Advantages, Joe Essid

Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies

Institutions are scrambling, at an unaccustomed pace, to adapt to generative artificial intelligence. While justified concerns focus on plagiarism, the nature of student learning, and changes to assignments, recent scholarship has largely ignored the potential for faculty and staff unemployment that may accompany acceptance and deployment of the new technology. As we ponder seismic changes in higher education, one voice should join, indeed lead, campus discussions. Writing center professionals have proven adept at weathering technological changes, budget cuts, administrative big ideas, and professional marginalization for more than half a century. Early on, centers were sometimes dismissed as mere “fix-it shops” …


Myth, Fiction And Politics In The Age Of Antiheroes: A Case Study Of Donald Trump, Igor Prusa, Matthew Brummer Jul 2022

Myth, Fiction And Politics In The Age Of Antiheroes: A Case Study Of Donald Trump, Igor Prusa, Matthew Brummer

Heroism Science

In this article, we demonstrate that the antihero archetype informs our understanding of Trump in important ways, including his rise to and fall from power. We introduce an analytical framework for analyzing Trump’s antiheroic traits based on his social positioning, individual motivation, and personal charisma. We argue that Trump is fascinating because he is powerful, amoral, and charismatic, and suggest that the American public was primed for Trumpism through a zeitgeist hospitable to antihero worship. That is, Trump’s dogged popularity with nearly half of the American public was foretold by decades of pop-cultural obsession with, and adulation for, the antihero.


On-Screen: The Silver, Small And Smartphone Screens Of Heroism, Chris Comerford Jun 2022

On-Screen: The Silver, Small And Smartphone Screens Of Heroism, Chris Comerford

Heroism Science

The representation of heroism on screens, and the ways we make sense of heroic imagery across them, is the theme of this special issue of Heroism Science. Each article makes the case that our comprehension of heroism can only be augmented and enhanced by the film, the television series, the video game, the news broadcast, the phone camera and the social media stream, all of them on screens that are silver, small and smart. The articles demonstrate how the screen’s ability to display, represent, convey, conjure and critique heroic moments. Moreover, this special issue shows how fictional heroism as …


John Wick: Keanu Reeves’S Epic Adventure, Ann C. Hall Jun 2022

John Wick: Keanu Reeves’S Epic Adventure, Ann C. Hall

Heroism Science

Three films create the John Wick universe and franchise: John Wick (2014), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), and John Wick: Chapter 3, Parabellum (2019). A fourth film is scheduled to be released in March 2023. All are wildly popular, and all are criticized for violence, particularly gun violence. I argue, however, that by examining the visual references that appear in all the films, it becomes clear that the films are defending themselves from such attacks through their allusions to ancient and classical epics from around the world. As Wick battles his way through museums and beautiful cities, the film reminds …


There Goes My Antihero: How Wendy Byrde Broke Bad, Melissa Vosen Callens Apr 2022

There Goes My Antihero: How Wendy Byrde Broke Bad, Melissa Vosen Callens

Heroism Science

Despite the increase of male antiheroes in popular culture, the number of female antiheroes is sparse, particularly when female characters are romantically involved with male antiheroes. There are several reasons for this disparity, partially which can be explained by affective disposition theory. First, female characters are rarely given agency and adequate backstories. Second, in order for female characters to be antiheroes, they typically must challenge gender role stereotypes, especially as they pertain to motherhood. Finally, they are often treated poorly by other characters in the series. All of these reasons have a profound effect on how audiences perceive female characters …


Curb Your Heroism: How Larry David, An Old, Bald Misanthrope, Won The Hearts Of Millions, Scott T. Allison, James K. Beggan, Olivia Efthimiou Mar 2022

Curb Your Heroism: How Larry David, An Old, Bald Misanthrope, Won The Hearts Of Millions, Scott T. Allison, James K. Beggan, Olivia Efthimiou

Heroism Science

For eleven television seasons, viewers of the series Curb Your Enthusiasm have been witness to a main character in Larry David who paradoxically displays attributes that are both endearing and revolting. This article offers an analysis of Larry David’s character with the goal of ascertaining his heroic nature, specifically focusing on whether he best meets the scientific criteria for a hero or for an antihero. Drawing from the literature of heroism science, we examine a large body of evidence from episodes of the series supporting arguments for both heroism and antiheroism in Larry’s character. Consistent with definitions of heroism, Larry …


Ethical Leadership And Leadership In Ethics, Robert Audi Jan 2022

Ethical Leadership And Leadership In Ethics, Robert Audi

Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies

This paper offers a conceptual portrait of leadership and a framework for exercising it in the realm of ethics. The paper provides an account of what constitutes leadership, a set of moral standards for its ethical exercise, and a distinction between leadership that meets these standards and leadership that not only meets them, but positively engages them. This engagement is central for leadership in ethics. The main context for analysis in the paper is organizational. Leadership is essential for the success of organizations and morally important in their daily operations. The paper also describes its nature and role in less …


What Pandemics Teach Us About Servant Leadership, Kelly L. Bezio Jan 2022

What Pandemics Teach Us About Servant Leadership, Kelly L. Bezio

Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies

This article seeks to understand what pandemics teach us about servant leadership. It analyzes two texts, which reflect on people of color’s experiences becoming servant leaders during such public health crises: A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793 (1794) and The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (2021). These texts balance detailed depictions of what this leadership praxis looks like with trenchant critiques of how service, racism, and leadership tend to intersect in the United States. As texts that demonstrate the …


Literature, Pandemic, And The Insufficiency Of Survival: Boccaccio’S Decameron And Emily St. John Mandel’S Station Eleven, Anthony P. Russell Jan 2022

Literature, Pandemic, And The Insufficiency Of Survival: Boccaccio’S Decameron And Emily St. John Mandel’S Station Eleven, Anthony P. Russell

Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies

The question of literature’s utility in relation to the “real world” has been asked since at least the time of Plato. This essay examines an extreme instance of this problem by investigating two works, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (1349-1353) and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2016), that argue for the value of art in the midst of catastrophe. Boccaccio’s collection of 100 tales, written in the context of the Black Plague, and Mandel’s post-apocalyptic novel about a world devastated by a killer flu, overlap and diverge in instructive ways in making their cases for the important role of literature in …


“It’S My Metier”: The Failed Hero In Chinatown, Ann C. Hall Aug 2020

“It’S My Metier”: The Failed Hero In Chinatown, Ann C. Hall

Heroism Science

Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974) presents one of film’s most memorable failed heroes, Jake Giddes. Because of its grim ending, critics tend to conclude that it is an existential noir or a reflection on Polanski’s life and times, his escape from the Holocaust as a child, the death of his wife Sharon Tate, or political events such as Watergate and Vietnam. By examining the film as through the genre of tragedy, Giddes becomes a tragic, not failed, hero, a character who can show us how to suffer nobly.


Black Hole, Reda Ansar Jan 2020

Black Hole, Reda Ansar

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Tu Amoris Ignem, Casey Murano Jan 2020

Tu Amoris Ignem, Casey Murano

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Light In The Dark, Nichole Schiff Jan 2020

Light In The Dark, Nichole Schiff

The Messenger

Cover illustration for the Spring 2020 issue of The Messenger.


Lost In Time And Space, Nichole Schiff Jan 2020

Lost In Time And Space, Nichole Schiff

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Thundercloud, Riley Geritz Jan 2020

Thundercloud, Riley Geritz

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


The Messenger - Spring 2020 Jan 2020

The Messenger - Spring 2020

The Messenger

The objective of The Messenger is to encourage the appreciation and exploration of the creative arts on the University of Richmond campus. Since 1876, The Messenger has celebrated student work by publishing submissions in a literary and visual arts magazine. More information on the magazine, as well as past publications since 1987, can be found on messengerur.wordpress.com.

MEMORY

the act or fact of retaining and recalling impressions, facts, etc.

to draw from memory.

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“I think it is all a matter of love:

the more you love a memory,

the stronger and stranger it is.”

Vladimir Nabokov


Greetings From Ghana: Portraits Of Greats, Johnnette Johnson Jan 2020

Greetings From Ghana: Portraits Of Greats, Johnnette Johnson

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Poetry From “Consider The Twists”, Raven Baugh Jan 2020

Poetry From “Consider The Twists”, Raven Baugh

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Shovel, Raven Baugh Jan 2020

Shovel, Raven Baugh

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Lost In A Dream, Caroline Bisese Jan 2020

Lost In A Dream, Caroline Bisese

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Notebook, Liam Lassiter Jan 2020

Notebook, Liam Lassiter

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Weaving Of Our Stories, Casey Murano Jan 2020

Weaving Of Our Stories, Casey Murano

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Socks, Reilly Geritz Jan 2020

Socks, Reilly Geritz

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Internalized, Liam Lassiter Jan 2020

Internalized, Liam Lassiter

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Warmth Of Royann 35mm, Jess Chiotelis Jan 2020

Warmth Of Royann 35mm, Jess Chiotelis

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Contemplation, Johnnette Jackson Jan 2020

Contemplation, Johnnette Jackson

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


The Rats Of The Paris Opera House, Megan Brooks Jan 2020

The Rats Of The Paris Opera House, Megan Brooks

The Messenger

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La Ville De Paris, Nathan Burns Jan 2020

La Ville De Paris, Nathan Burns

The Messenger

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Untitled, Ellie Holdsworth Jan 2020

Untitled, Ellie Holdsworth

The Messenger

No abstract provided.


Objection, Metasebia Tessema Jan 2020

Objection, Metasebia Tessema

The Messenger

No abstract provided.