by Kersti Francis | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Fleeing Backwards: The Problematic Present in Medieval Studies When and how do we talk about the attitudes of an entire field? These conversations often occur in office hours, not in articles, emerging over drinks at conferences or in fights in closed Facebook groups....
by Kelly Alblinger | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Notes From a Saint Life lessons have the tendency to sneak up on us. Often, we’re going about our business, doing what we do, and a message from the universe smacks us upside the head without warning. If we are paying attention, the impact can be life-altering. Our...
by Marissa Mika | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Nesting For years, we had cats. Gigantic rescue cats, retrieved from a Philadelphia parking lot when they were only a pair of gray and black kittens, as benign and rambunctious as the cubs in Tiger King. But they grew into the sort of cats who fantasized all day long...
by Arielle Stambler | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Beyond the Doomsday Machine: Teaching Literature Now Literary study offers an opportunity to suspend disbelief, to imagine the world not as it is, but as it could be. This is the line I write on the syllabus for every undergraduate English course I teach. I want to...
by Shweta Deshpande | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Beyond the Photographs: New Perspectives on Travel Cambodia is the land of Angkor Wat, a World Heritage Site more widely known than the country itself. “City of the Gods” and “Kingdom of Wonder;” these are some of the ways in which the temple complex has been...
by Jeanny Fuentes | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Challenging Patriarchy in María de Zayas’s “Novelas” The virtual archival exhibit Wise and Valiant: Women and Writing in the Spanish Golden Age, curated by Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute and the National Library of...
