Toward a New Materialism: The Domestic Spaces of “We Other Victorians”
The Netflix hit Tidying Up with Marie Kondo has inspired so many people to purge their homes of excess that there has been a noticeable...
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Regan Levitte
- Jan 22, 2019
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...
Keshia Mcclantoc
- Dec 4, 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...
Anne Nagel
- Nov 20, 2018
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...
Christy Hyman
- Nov 20, 2018
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...
Claire Jimenez
- Nov 13, 2018
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...
Emily PD
- Nov 6, 2018
Who Works?
In 2016, the Seventh Circuit affirmed what a number of courts before them had repeatedly asserted in past: student athletes are not...
Adam Hubrig
- Oct 31, 2018
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...
Colten White
- Oct 30, 2018
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...
Stevie Seibert Desjarlais
- Oct 23, 2018
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...
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