On the Challenges of Literary Interpretation
Recently, conversating about a paper I was preparing for a conference with my professors. The paper dealt with an unorthodox...
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Barbara Bordalejo
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
Do you Like Ethics?
Should everyone take ethics classes? The data course highlights the problem of the need for more training in various educational sectors,...
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frankonuh
- 6 days ago
- 1 min
Decolonizing Knowledge: Examining the Power Dynamics of Global Unity and Equality
Who decides what a word should mean? Who decides what is an appropriate or inappropriate meaning? How do we measure and compare knowledge...
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davide.pafumi
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
Talking of Michelangelo
"In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo." (T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock") While writing a...
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
- 6 days ago
- 7 min
The rise of the house of Usher: Standardisation and the decline of the value proposition in post-sec
What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble;...
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ngsmith49
- 6 days ago
- 4 min
Reading the Introductions of Mabinogi(on) Translations
There is an abundance of information to be found in the various introductions of the different Mabinogi translations (occasionally titled...
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ngsmith49
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Introductions and Work
Hello, World! You'll perhaps forgive me for being slightly deficient in technological skills (despite the admittedly dated reference...
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davide.pafumi
- Jan 15
- 2 min
Body Authonomy or Authonomy of the Body?
Foucault discusses biopower and biopolitics extensively in his works. He defines biopolitics as the use of institutionalised authority to...
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Barbara Bordalejo
- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
Welcome, Frank!
The Humanities Innovation Lab welcomes its newest member, Frank Onuh, who will work on text analysis of political discourse and hate...
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Barbara Bordalejo
- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
Congratulations, Khalid!
We are proud to congratulate Khalid on the successful defence of his thesis, The History of English in Bangladesh. Khalid showed mastery...
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morganpearce3
- Dec 12, 2022
- 3 min
Medieval Melancholia and Depression (Pt. 1)
Continuing my journey through the game Pentiment, I came across an especially resonant part of the game. In order to convey its full...
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davide.pafumi
- Dec 11, 2022
- 2 min
Does the Procedure Really Make the Product?
One of the things you hear more frequently in the eternal fight between French and Italian cuisine is that the first with respect to the...
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davide.pafumi
- Dec 3, 2022
- 3 min
Pedagogy of Dissent or Pedagogy of Consent?
In one of my classes, my instructor introduced an intriguing concept that has since been a source of personal rumination: the concept of...
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morganpearce3
- Nov 28, 2022
- 3 min
Pentiment: Art, Writing, and Change
"Italian pentimento repentance, remorse (a1257), change of opinion (1630), correction (a1827)" (OED). With my free time lately, I have...
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davide.pafumi
- Nov 25, 2022
- 2 min
The Funnel Model
Thinking back on a guest lecture I gave last week, it occurred to me a conversation I had in the classroom with some students. The topic...
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
- Nov 20, 2022
- 4 min
Yet another blog about twitter... It reminds me of listservs in the 1990s.
It’s been interesting watching how the last few weeks have played out on Twitter.
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davide.pafumi
- Nov 20, 2022
- 2 min
Stories of Bows and Arrows and their Cultural Significance
Insistent references to the bow in 14th- and 15th-century literary sources seem at first glance incomprehensible. Bow and arrows are...
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Barbara Bordalejo
- Nov 19, 2022
- 3 min
The Rise of Fast Books or Instant Mash Ain’t Mashed Potatoes
Last week, Dan posted a few notes on bookbinding in which he wondered about the swiftness of the 19-century binding in reference to the...
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davide.pafumi
- Nov 12, 2022
- 3 min
Literary Leprosy in 15-century Scotland
In an excellent case study on Henryson's "The Testament of Cressid", Ellis Herndon Hutson (1972) identifies the symptoms of the literary...
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