Friday, January 17, 2014

Sagas and Scarcity: A first-time reader on the frontier

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by KARL STEEL Over the past few months, as a kind of preparation for NCS Iceland, and also just for fun, I've read, in translation, ...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Animals and Ecology in the Middle Ages - A Spring 2014 Syllabus

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Yayoi Kusama at David Zwirner by KARL STEEL Hi folks, First, thanks to the guest post from Dorothy Kim, whose promotion of medieval...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

#medievaltwitter

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a guest post by Dorothy Kim [ @dorothyk98 ] MLA 2014 in subarctic Chicago is around the corner. Many articles have already discuss...
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Monday, January 06, 2014

Prismatic Ecology now in print!

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by J J Cohen The FedEx truck dropped off my copy Friday, so now I know it's real. Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green is out. ...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

Peter Jackson, Epic Dwarves and Extraordinary Bodies

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by J J Cohen Steve Mentz has a great blog post ( Just Get There: Hobbit 2 as Whitewater Epic ) on the latest installment of the Hobbit tr...
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Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Privilege, tenure, adjunctification and the decimated job market

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by J J Cohen Happy new year. I'm  transporting here from FB a public discussion and a sharing of the links about a recent and impor...
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Withdrawing the Grain

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by KARL STEEL When I teach the Prioress's Tale, as I did twice last semester, I have typically liked asking the students "who k...
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

A happy and a merry

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by J J Cohen "How are you?" The customer ahead of me in the Dunkin Donuts line asked this of the young man at the register,...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

PUBLISHED: Issue 4.4 of postmedieval: PREMODERN FLESH

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by EILEEN JOY There is a viscous porosity of flesh – my flesh and the flesh of the world. This porosity is a hinge through which we ar...