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Ilana Masad

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...

Caitlin Henry

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Kent A. Ono

This year’s Humanities on the Edge series addresses the question of “Post-Truth Futures.” The first lecture, “The Rhetoric of Sanctuary...

Michelle Trantham

Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper: Women Who Write for Freedom in Modern Media

Stranger Than Fiction | Columbia Pictures, Jane the Virgin | The CW, Bridget Jones’ Diary | Universal Pictures, 13 Going on 30 | Columbia...

Jonathan Cheng

We don’t have a good language for describing the relationship between numbers and literary impressio

Image 1. The gender distribution in international cinema according to four sociological studies. Courtesy of Wikipedia. In May of 2017,...

Adam Hubrig

Twisting Parrhesia: White Supremacist Rhetoric about Diversity

I’ve been troubled by the remarks made about “diversity” by other straight white men in public spheres I occupy lately: namely being a...

Rachel Cochran

Perilous Discourses of Progress: Section 377 and the (Re-)Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Indi

I was midway through writing a completely different article to post here when the news broke on Thursday that India’s Supreme Court had...

Christian Rush

Engaging a State of Becoming: Coming to Understand My Body

My body became different. Over the span of a year and a half the body that I knew became smaller, got stronger, ate new things, felt...

Robert Lipscomb

The International Cinema of Mop Top Sexuality

Mop Top Nico. Heartbeats (2010) I noticed something in film, and I have been noticing it for some time. I first started recognizing it...

Katie McWain

The Space Betwixt and Between: Watershed Moments from Spring 2018

Photo Credit: learner.org At the end of my three years serving as a member of the Watershed Collective, I’m poised to shed the graduate...

Ángel García

Humanities on the Edge Review: Bridget R. Cooks

At the center of Professor Bridget R. Cooks’ lecture, “Black Artists and Activism: Harlem on My Mind, 1969,” was the projected photograph...