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All sorts of asses ‘love’ poetry. Why not? It confirms them in the assininity of their deepest beliefs. It underlies the racial laziness, th...

The schedule for my junior seminar "Modernism and Childhood" is below. Comments welcome. * * * Modernism and Childhood This ...

I'm not teaching this semester, but my book list for next semester is due exceedingly soon. I think it'll have to be one of those la...

File it under "things that started out as a joke and became increasingly awesome." My panel "Against Innovation," with ...

Being Against Innovation , I was very interested in Jed Rasula's article in the most recent M/m , which showed up on my porch the other...

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

300-word abstracts and brief bios to all.mla2012@gmail.com by March 15, 2011. “[A] woman stunts her intelligence to become childlike, turns...

Am I the meanest teacher? Maybe. I think I'm about to get a really terrible song stuck in my students' heads. But it's for Lear...

In the midst of a satisfying rant about the recent NYT faux-forum on tenure, Aaron notes: But the real problem is simply that this was nev...

Apropos of yesterday's post, here's Ezra Pound on the question of when you can make judgments (this will come as no surprise): Even ...

I've been thinking about a question I was asked at MLA this year. Someone asked me about the moment at the end of Marianne Moore's ...

From Burke and Kant, we're used to seeing the sublime opposed to the beautiful. But Longinus writes (in this 1698 translation of On the ...

I tend to be very reticent about my research on this blog, perhaps due to the universal academic fear that nobody is interested. But I think...

My partner in crime Jill and I were both pumped about the same panel this morning, the "Trans-Temporality" panel with Claire Coleb...

Some quick notes from today. I went to a very interesting seminar on science studies and modernism this morning. The seminar was run by Anne...

I'm in the midst of a bunch of things right now. Here are a few of them: 1. I just heard about Yale's Modernism Lab . Very cool -- l...

Doris Day in Calamity Jane : a woman's touch, indeed. With Miss Moore a word is a word most when it is separated out by science, treated...

Later it struck me that the best history of painting in London was the National Gallery, and that the best history of literature, more parti...