What does it mean to not have a history? Alejandro Zambra’s ‘Ways of Going Home’
Names, or lack or inappropriateness thereof, are a ghostly presence in Alejandro Zambra’s characterization of the macro- and micro-level themes expertly tangled in his novel...
Art of the Sentence: Zinzi Clemmons
“I’ve often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless” (p.31). So responds Zinzi Clemmons’ narrator...
Art of the Sentence: Jenny Offill
“Once, as I lay in bed, a bright red sun appeared in the window. It bounced from side to side, then became a ball. Life...
Bjork’s Autofiction and the Mutating Self
How can a “visual manifesto of the self”—a separation of the self (Bjork) from the other (us, her readers) connect the self and the other...
Presentation script, SCSECS 2019 conference, Dallas, 23 Feb: “Rise of the Female Self: Frances Burney’s Journal, Letter, and Novel Writing as Technologies of Self/care”
Download a copy of the slides here. Slide 1: This project is a reduced version of a seminar paper during a class on a transhistorical...