In the Middle

... to Kofi Omoniyi Sylvanus Campbell for (1) winning the proliferation of middle names game and (2) having Literature and Culture in the Bl...

In honor of NCS and what Carolyn Dinshaw called the "multiple and heterogeneous temporalities" of medieval culture in her admirabl...

Well, one week has passed since my request to Tiny Mix Tapes' online Automatic Mixtape Generator for a rock/punk/rage "getting med...

To honor the fact that Domesday Book is now online via the National Archives website, here is a short bit on Domesday and colonialism, a sl...

Race does not, scientifically speaking, exist. It belongs to the realm of fantasy, where it demonstrates a powerful ability to give substanc...

Following upon the rich posts Eileen made on The Redress Project and Anglo-Saxons Were Apartheid Racists! , here is small bit on race that ...

Via Inside Higher Ed , a report on postpositive realism , a burgeoning movement in minority studies that stresses real world impact of inhab...

These reflections upon the New Chaucer Society conference, just concluded in NYC, owe much to conversations that unfolded outside of the pan...

No, I don't wish that on YOU. I'm just quoting some of the better hate mail at The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster . A few mo...

Although the subject of my last post--the special issue of Representations 92: "Redress" [Fall 2005; edited by Stephen Best and ...

Okay--there's this really cool free music service that mainly only teenagers know about [thank god I'm living with losts of teenage...

My postcard is in fact a snapshot of Patsy and Edina at NCS. I don't know when they became so dour, but a serious Chaucer conference wil...

Just a little postcard from those of us in Blogville to say we hope those of you at the New Chaucer Society meeting in NYC are having as muc...

Relative to our discussions of humanism and "being human," and also psychoanalysis, transference, and self-Other relationships, I...

A new book just out by Walter Goffart is quite apropos, I think, to our recent discussion regarding whether or not the early Anglo-Saxons we...