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Teaching: it's on! It seems like a good class so far. I'll likely have more to say about it soon; it's my first time teaching wi...

This funny quasi-benshi video from Critical Commons has been making the rounds: I don't entirely agree with the video's argument, b...

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 ...

There's an article by William Major and Bryan Sinche in the Chronicle of Higher Ed right now arguing that, seriously, guys, Ralph Wald...

I don't really do new year's resolutions, but there are a few things I think I'd like to do with this blog. This blog has always...

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 ...

The Literary Organ, MLA 2011 (January 6-9, 2011; Los Angeles) A Special Session (subject to MLA approval) “I have given no small attention t...

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...