Browsing Scholarly Works, Department of English by Title
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Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed words
(PLOS, 2019-02-04)Recent work has shown that listeners process words faster if said by a member of the group that typically uses the word. This paper further explores how the social distributions of words affect lexical access by exploring ... -
Autism and Rhetoric
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2011-05)By understanding the verbal and nonverbal manifestations of autism as a rhetorical imperative, a perspective that involves applying Krista Ratcliffe's concept of rhetorical listening, scholars can do much to dissolve the ... -
Blake and Rousseau on Children's Reading, Pleasure, and Imagination
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Challenging the Digital Humanities: A Response to Jon Saklofske
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Channeling William Blake: A Response to Roger Whitson
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Craft and Care: The Maker Movement, Catherine Blake, and the Digital Humanities
(Liverpool University Press, 2016-04)This article examines the popular Maker movement, the scholarly discourse of “critical making,” and the work of digital humanists through an analysis of the working relationship between William and Catherine Blake. It ... -
Digging in the Crates Vol. 3: Gender & Hip Hop with Nikki Giovanni
An evening with poet, activist, educator, and University Distinguished Professor Nikki Giovanni, hosted by Kimberly Williams (Assistant Director, Black Cultural Center) and Corey Miles (Ph.D. Student, Sociology/Africana ... -
Digital Discussions in the Humanities and Social Sciences: "Are Common Topics Common? Rhetorical Questions and Computational Methods"
(2013-09-18)William Hart-Davidson, Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Writing and Co-Director of the Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center at Michigan State University, will discuss his research that highlights the ... -
Digital humanities and the study and teaching of North American religions
(Wiley, 2016-12)The digital humanities are a collection of methodologies with a long history in the disciplines of literature, linguistics, media studies, and pedagogy. These methodologies and the scholars who employ them have recently ... -
Dressing up the author: Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace branding their masculine authorial identities through fashion
(Intellect, 2020-10-01)This article explores the use of clothes and other accessories as markers of masculine authorial identity. Fashion and literature are contentious partners, with literature attempting to keep a firm distance from the popular ... -
Enshrining Gender in Monuments to Settler Whiteness: South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and the United States’ This Is the Place Monument
(MDPI, 2021-03-02)This essay examines two monuments: the Voortrekker Monument in South Africa and the American This is the Place Monument in Utah. Similar in terms of construction and historical purpose, both employ gender as an important ... -
From Master to Brother: Shifting the Balance of Authority in Ursula K. Le Guin's Farthest Shore and Tehanu
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From postcard to book cover: illustrating connections between medical history and digital humanities
(2019-10)This article illustrates the value and impact of collaboration among scholars, archivists, and librarians working across universities and government institutions, and how changes in medium-from a born-physical photograph ... -
Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America
(Cornell University Press, 2020-09-15)In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and agency. Women ... -
Histories of the Dustheap
(2014-02-18)Visiting professor Elizabeth Mazzolini discusses her co-edited book "Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice" (MIT Press). Introduced by Lesley Moyo, University Libraries, and Tom Ewing, ... -
Holy Cards/Immaginette: The Extraordinary Literacy of Vernacular Religion
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2008-12)Like other seemingly ordinary materials (cookbooks, street art, scrapbooks, etc.) the subject of our investigation-holy cards or (in Italian) immaginette-often function as rich repositories of personal and cultural memory ... -
“I Have No Disbelief”: Spiritualism and Secular Agency in Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons
(Project Muse, 2017)This essay explores the imagery of Spiritualist religion that runs through Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons, arguing that the exercise of Spiritualist gifts including clairvoyance, trance-speaking, and spirit-traveling ... -
Ideal Cities
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2012-09)Erika Meitner discusses her new book: Ideal Cities. This collection of autobiographical narrative and lyric poems explores the relationship between body and place—specifically the pleasures and dangers of women’s corporeal ... -
In God we troust - Derek Walcott and God
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2005)