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I’m teaching White Teeth right now in my Contemporary Literature summer course at URI, so I’ve been binge-watching and -listening to recorded… READ MORE
Morning Song Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry… READ MORE
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Forgive the lengthy quotations below. It will take a while to build up to Roland Barthes’s studium and punctum. (I explain my… READ MORE
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(Glance at this first.) From Chapter Four of Orlando (1928) (in which Orlando returns to England as a woman…): “Gentle creature,” cried the Archduchess,… READ MORE
In just a couple of weeks, I start teaching a summer course in Contemporary Lit at URI’s Kingston campus. I had a hard… READ MORE
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From Woolf: As a child then, my days, just as they do now, contain a large proportion of this cotton… READ MORE
The Road Thus Far, or What Do the Guides Say? What do other commentators make of Deleuze’s summary/critique of Aristotle?… READ MORE
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak begins her essay, “Terror: A Speech After 9/11” (2004), These ruminations arose in response to America’s war… READ MORE
William Blake The Lamb READ MORE