In the Middle

Time is a substance; it accretes unevenly to objects, clings, seeps and penetrates, abrades. Like the molecules that in their aggregation gi...

Since so many people find this blog as they search the web trying to discover more about postcolonial theory, I offer the following: an exce...

... and I don't want it to sound as if I'm complaining about the work I've taken on it. I love doing what I am doing -- even whe...

Ah, the leisure laden life of a professor on sabbatical ... matinees, long bike rides, ceaseless hours of bad television. If only. Having fi...

Of course, witches in tough economic times, like teachers, still need a roof over their heads. About 29 percent of Americans believed in hau...

Some recommended reading: The most recent issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is devoted to "Theory and the Stud...

[update 12/21: welcome visitors from BuzzFeed . You'll find quite a bit on this blog about interspecies relations by searching "ani...

That's "funny" in a Mark Twain sense, not "funny" as in "I am a lonely internet user in Tokyo seeking informati...

One of the more intriguing functions of a blog site meter is its ability to reveal what keyword search brought a particular reader to your p...

You'll never transform your children into tiny medievalists until you (1) snatch them away from their Nintendo DS and (2) force them to ...

As a kid, I was addicted to “In Search Of,” with Leonard Nimoy. (I know, I know…) One episode that really stuck with me was about killer be...

Readers want to know: what's up with that index entry on toads? (See "Index Joy" ) We know the Middle Ages were zany, you say,...

For reasons that will become clear when I finally finish my index and post about another ongoing project, I've been thinking quite a bit...

Sure, there are classic books like the Lord of the Rings (Seth Lerer did a brilliant MLA paper a few years ago on Gandalf as philologist th...

ANGELS ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000–1534 by Kathy Lavezzo, University of Iowa From the Corne...