On The Backward Gaze
Susan Felch’s “The Backward Gaze,” puts forth a vision of editorial scholarship in which a text is “always a prism that refracts light” (21). Because...
Using The Pulter Project to Construct Meaning in “The Indian Moose (Emblem 7)” and “The Stately Moose (Emblem 27)”
“We take this material [a unique leather-bound manuscript, poems of political, personal, religious, scientific] and make something new. We invite you to continue in the...
What does it mean to be ‘an unnecessary woman’?
The aspect of Rabih Almeddine’s An Unnecessary Woman: A Novel (2014) that most powerfully strikes me is the seamless movement across time, across micro places...
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...
Loving the Gothic Novel
Of the Gothic texts spanning an approximately 75-year period that we explored this semester--Wollstonecraft’s Mary and Maria (1792), Radcliffe’s The Italian (1797), Austen’s Northanger Abbey...