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Interviews (with apologies to Gertrude Stein) Room where is the room. Where is the room. A convention. A convention an elevator a conventio...

Aaron's recent post on the American "bad boy" in Avatar made me think in general about children's narratives that constr...

I just got back my student evaluations, with the usual hodgepodge of randomnesses that they bring. One student praised me for having handed ...

I ran into this book in the basement of Moe's this evening, while looking for something else: It's the Oxford Illustrated Book of Am...

Just so we're clear: the protesters were spending a quiet week in Wheeler Hall. People were free to come and go; no one was disturbed. T...

A commenter writes of this post on an inappropriate literary reference: "Aw, come on, no need to cll it inappropriate. They probably ...

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 find Mark Sample's Twitter stream and blog invaluable for thinking about the use of new media for teaching, especially since he actual...

According to people on Twitter , about a hundred students have occupied UC headquarters in downtown Oakland. @ucbprotest Tons of cops outsi...

Chancellor Birgeneau: The images that have appeared on YouTube and videos do not reflect our values and those of our entire campus community...

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty." Taken inside the pharmacy next to the Rockridge Trader Joe's. Best inappropriate literary ref...

Imagine you'd told a bunch of students that their papers must be structured and controlled by a one-sentence statement called a "th...