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José Esteban Muñoz, Nació1967 – Murió El 4 De Diciembre 2013, Jason Benjamín Treviño
José Esteban Muñoz, Nació1967 – Murió El 4 De Diciembre 2013, Jason Benjamín Treviño
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
When I was asked to prepare this song in memory of José Esteban Muñoz, I thought it would fly from my fingers and land perfectly onto a page like those so many obituaries I wrote in my former years working as a Funeral Director and Embalmer. But those skills don’t transfer here. My curser remained mute, blinking angrily at me to write about a man I never met but whose work was a bright star. It is a sad honor to participate in the celebration of José Esteban Muñoz’s life and works.
A Reflection On The Work Of Late Yale Professor Sam See, Sarah E. Kersh
A Reflection On The Work Of Late Yale Professor Sam See, Sarah E. Kersh
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Over the course of his too-short career, Sam See’s scholarship focused on queerness, race, and form in American and British Modernism. See’s work examines texts by a range of authors including canonical figures such as Henry James, Langston Hughes, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway, and more marginalized writers such as Djuna Barnes, and Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler. In his essay on Ford and Tyler’s 1933 novel The Young and the Evil, he argues for an analysis of the text’s “generically dual ambitions…[which,] I propose, enable contemporary literary historians to make modernism new” (1078). Understanding ‘duality’ is at the …