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    The Feminist Re-Purposing of Fan-Fiction

    The Feminist Re-Purposing of Fan-Fiction

    The other day, one of my students told me I was his coolest teacher. This is funny to me, because I have spent the majority of my life be...
    Through Bodies and Language: Watershed takes on Fall 2018

    Through Bodies and Language: Watershed takes on Fall 2018

    Photo credit: hifructose.com In William Banks's “Written Through the Body: Disruptions and ‘Personal Writing’” he posits that the body is...
    Are we all "confident idiots?": Post-Truth Epistemologies

    Are we all "confident idiots?": Post-Truth Epistemologies

    In an article cheekily titled “We are all confident idiots,” David Dunning discusses a series of studies which show that education can le...
    Not Yet Outlandish: The Ex-Slave at Sea in the C19

    Not Yet Outlandish: The Ex-Slave at Sea in the C19

    Literary scholar Hester Blum proposes that the sea should become central to critical conversations about global movements, relations, and...

    Learning From Our Mothers' Gardens: How to Survive the Trump Administration as a Woman Writer of

    This last week, I watched an MSNBC video clip of Abby Phillip leaning out of a crowd of reporters at a press conference to ask Donald Tru...
    Who Works?

    Who Works?

    In 2016, the Seventh Circuit affirmed what a number of courts before them had repeatedly asserted in past: student athletes are not emplo...
    Opening Pandora's App: Reflections on Jeffrey T. Nealon's "I'm Not Like Everybody E

    Opening Pandora's App: Reflections on Jeffrey T. Nealon's "I'm Not Like Everybody E

    “Music is and has been a powerful apparatus of capture for values of all kinds, but it’s also a powerful tool in subverting the present a...
    HotE Review: Lee McIntyre's "Post-Truth in the Internet Age"

    HotE Review: Lee McIntyre's "Post-Truth in the Internet Age"

    Lee McIntyre came to Lincoln on a mission. While many scholars travel to give lectures on topics they are passionate about, few scholars ...
    Humanities on the Edge Preview: Lee McIntyre

    Humanities on the Edge Preview: Lee McIntyre

    In a January 2017 appearance on Meet the Press, Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President, defended then Press Secretary Shawn Spicer’...
    Sanctuary and Rhetoric: A Review of Kent A. Ono's Humanities on the Edge Lecture

    Sanctuary and Rhetoric: A Review of Kent A. Ono's Humanities on the Edge Lecture

    It is fitting that Kent A. Ono’s lecture, “The Rhetoric of Sanctuary in the Post-Truth Era,” takes place in the lecture hall of the Sheld...
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