On Vertigo (Not the Hitchcock One): A Note on Difficulty and the Illicit Pleasures of Incomprehensio
1: Unbecoming Becoming Kim Novak During Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s talk last week at the Sheldon, I began to feel dizzy. Low blood sugar? No. (I’d checked beforehand and was holding steady at 112.) Tired. Yes, but what graduate student so close to November isn’t a little world-weary? That hasn’t stopped this old bobcat of academia before. Panic attack? Maybe. Read on. 2: The Virtue of Difficulty When faced with difficult texts, I tell my students to power through. I thought I kn