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Moacir's #JamesFrancoFacts are funny in general, but the one about getting Blackboard to work properly has to be the most hyperbolic, ...

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...

Q. Is Eve Sedgwick the best? A. Yes.

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...

Just to be clear: Lady Gaga is about (primarily visual) spectacle, not about music per se. That's not to say that her spectacle is neces...

We all saw the numbers put out by VIDA recently. ( A propos , here's Pollitt pointedly noticing something about a position I happen to...

Name: ________________________________________ 2/17/2011 1. The author of “Tradition and the Individual Talent” is: (a) T. ...

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

On the night Barack Obama was elected president, Berkeley celebrated. You could hear car horns honking late into the night. Kids were celebr...

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 ...