It’s getting down to the wire now. I have moved out of my house, in favor of subletters who are hopefully (A) very happy and (B) not breaking anything I like too much. I am down in the city of my birth visiting family, which is nice. My bags are […]
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I’m giving a talk at Suffolk University on Thursday. 1PM. I hope to see you there! They made a lovely flyer. Click here to see or download it (pdf). For the quick facts: “My Dreams is Censoredâ€: Poverty & Women in Black Artemis’ Picture Me Rollin’ Thursday, December 2nd at […]
I have a flyer!
But, a dissertation chapter is a dissertation chapter. The Sunday New York Times struck fear into my heart this week. This doesn’t happen every week, though goodness knows, more often than I’d like. This week brought us this headline: ‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback The problem here starts with […]
A Blog Post is Not a Dissertation Chapter
I imagine that many people reading this are familiar with Roland Barthes’ influential short piece The Death of the Author. I read this piece at the very beginning of graduate school, and at a time when I assumed that most work I undertook would be on quite literally dead authors. […]