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There's an uncanny (yeah, I went there) degree of consonance between my research and teaching lately. I'm currently working on an ar...

One reason that feral children are always partially fictive is that they instantiate the "forbidden experiment." To admit of the g...

The question surrounding wolf-children is always, are they even real ? They are the stuff of myth: Romulus and Remus, etc. But in the ninete...

Better (than this ): cuteness is a moment in the uncanny, the heimlich moment subject to reversal. The uncanny has a diachronic dimension ...

Noted: 1. The uncanny is the original minor aesthetic category. 2. Cuteness is a special (heimlich) case of the uncanny. Freud, Sigmun...

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose s...

Yesterday a colleague and I wandered out for a post-MLA, pre-spring semester tea. In the process, it came to our attention that it actually ...

Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!

I may see more of this than most--I work in modernism and science studies after all. But it seems to me that literary critics talk an awful ...

I've come to think that criticism is defined by the cultivation of a particular kind of self, one that has the right feelings and percep...

It occurs to me that discussions of "clarity" usually implicitly hinge on the following assumption: Difficulty for the writer mean...

Oh dear FSM, did I really just make a mental comparison between a Mei-mei Berssenbrugge poem and Regretsy ? I guess I just did. And it's...

Here's the journalist Janet Malcolm on Gertrude Stein, chiming in with a long, woman-hating tradition (on which see DeKoven and Stimpson...

Critical gestures like this are irritating to endure: These tortured writhings are irritating to endure. But they constituted part of what G...

Working in the quiet of the library with a friend: 1. One of us starts visibly trying to hold in laughter. 2. The other looks up quizzically...

There once was a young ABD Who valued her respiratory. But one sad spring day It went quite away But for lozenges, honey, and tea. There was...

Planning to do research is almost as satisfying as actually doing it. I'll be doing a little research at the Bancroft Library this summ...

Some months after she had left Johns Hopkins but while her supervisor, Lewellys Barker, was still trying to get her research published, Gert...

Whom, under what circumstances, and how should we praise? One needs a certain facility with praise in this profession. Every time I respond ...