Anointing the Self with Healing Light: Radical Self-care and Recovery/Reintegration
Josiah Wedgwood, creator of the still-coveted matte-style pottery of the same name, was also a staunch abolitionist. He designed the “Wedgwood Slave Medallion” which served...
The Reputation of a Woman: Female (Self) Authorship, Journaling, and the Rise of the Epistolary Novel
“Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of...
Habermas’s Rise of the Public Sphere: “News Paper” & Novel Consumerism in 18th Century England
Solely by the act of translating Habermas, and in articulating “why now?” for multiple rhetorical spheres/readerships, this translation in its introduction (1) sets itself up...
Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Original Non-conforming Conformists
The Romantic subjectivity of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—and the sharpened skill of their wordsmithing—draw emotions from me, a woman two centuries their junior...
Shakespeare as Intro-to-Philosophy Instructor/guide: King Lear and Kierkegaard
This lesson plan uses Shakespeare’s King Lear as a framework for introducing and considering important philosophical questions--in this case, Soren Kierkegaard’s separation of ethics, religion...