In the Middle

Our travelers are on the last leg of their journey to Canterbury, on a modern steam train. (Much more lightweight than the old steam l...

This flash video , via Slouching Towards Extimacy , where it is offered as proof of that queer theory is alive and well in Anglo-Saxon studi...

To be human is to know both what one is doing and why one is doing it .--Anthony Giddens, from Modernity and Self-Identity Karl has asked us...

I've just finished my first week at Brooklyn College, where I'm teaching The Emergence of the Modern,* The Bible as Literature, and ...

I recently discovered a wonderful blog called Bioephemera. Check out this entry, a meditation on the very medieval word speculum that also ...

Though it may appear from that subject line that I've become what many late career medievalists seem destined to become (an odd person w...

The short stretch between June and August is one of the few times I have a chance to read some non-work related fiction. This summer I found...

Do not miss your chance to hear David Wallace (whose voice could render a public reading of my Google Calendar an aesthetic experience) spea...

Historicism contents itself with establishing a causal connection between various moments in history. But no fact that is a cause is for th...

Figure 1 . Juliette Losq, Palimpsest I (shellac ink on paper) I recently ran across two thought-provoking and beautifully written blog post...

Stephen Sondheim meets Slavoj Zizek at The Kugelmass Episodes ... Roger Whitson contemplates the death of cultural studies and the messiani...

Jonathan Harris is a web artist who has created some online art projects that I think are really exciting vis-a-vis some of our ongoing con...

I've been in Cambridge, MA; Ogunquit, ME; and now Dover, NH -- avoiding work and seeing family and friends. On this family vacation I in...

Before delving into the rambling of my post, I'd encourage you to read Karl's masterful epilogue to his dissertation, and check out...

First, Maureen Dowd declared in a New York Times Op-Ed piece that the Iraq war "has turned into Grendel, devouring everything in sigh...