In the Middle

Two good posts by Stephanie Trigg on the recent apologies to the Indigenous people of Australia: here and here .

Close scrutiny of the image at left reveals the following: A skeleton, which for a while we had sitting outside the chair's door clutchi...

That provocative statement is made and a host of Middle Earthian puns deployed in this blog post on the legal troubles besetting the Lord of...

I thank Michael Moon's "Do You Smoke? Or, Is There Life? After Sex?" in After Sex? On Writing since Queer Theory (SAQ Summer ...

(1) Dr Virago, on the work of being a professor (2) Phil Paine, on dictators and the vanished of history (via Steve Muhlberger )

The Spring Semester of 2008 is officially in full swing here in New York, and nothing says "It has begun" as clearly as the openin...

First, the admission of a guilty pleasure: the Cohen family watches that parade of histrionics known as American Idol. Think of it as part o...

That would be this one . An old essay of mine appears here .

The program is online .

Yesterday I walked into my super deluxe technology up the wazoo classroom, armed with a DVD, a CD, and a memory stick with some kick ass Pow...

The question here for me, tonight, is one of response: to the murder of a student in my class, to my own processes of understanding, to thos...

Today, a brief genealogical foray slid into an hours-long expedition culminating in Groton, Suffolk, a minor town once lorded over by Bury ...

Can the Prioress's Tale bring Jews and Christians together? Exactly that counterintuitive goal belongs to Delvyn Case, creator of "...

Prof. de Breeze recently had a post about making a Pedagogical Hail Mary Pass : seeing that the instructional ship is listing like an iceber...

"Aesthetic concepts only began to interest me when I first perceived their existential roots, when I came to understand them as existen...