Even way back before classes started, I had ideas about how teaching in China was going to be different than teaching in America. I planned to do a lot of cultural translation, and indeed, I have had to do quite a bit. What I didn’t expect, however, not even when […]
litcrit
Help me out! My research, as you know if you’ve been here before, is in Puerto Rican literature written in the States. None of the books I worked on for my dissertation were 100% monolingual. I’m working with a definition of bilingual on a continuum where one extreme of the […]
Bilingualism in Literature: Where do we find it?
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 Censored”: Poverty & Women in Black Artemis’ Picture Me Rollin’ Thursday, December 2nd at […]
I have a flyer!
I don’t want to start a barrage of truly hardcore digital humanities folks laughing at me, but I’ve had such great connections about digital tools on Twitter today that I wanted to write a post at least in part so I could catalog them! My training in grad school in […]
Digital Tools
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. […]