Archive for February, 2019

Being a Person, Being in Public

Convened by Claire Jarvis

Acknowledgement(s): A Response to Frances McDonald

Although collaboration is the norm in STEM fields, it is, as Frances McDonald points out, an anomaly in the humanities. Even as new subfields like digital humanities and new methodologies…

The Humor We Fear Most: a Response to Sarah Wasserman

Sarah Wasserman, Frances McDonald, and for that matter all of us appear to be part of a rising wave of reappraisals about what literary critics do when we critique. Why…

The Right to Silence: a Response to Irvin Hunt

“He said nothing. He simply stood and waited as the rest of them came up to him, while they stopped and looked and understood.”1 These lines appear toward the end…

How to Read Lists (Well): a Response to Jed Esty

Let’s call the lists that we encounter and produce on a day-to-day basis ordinary lists. Examples might include shopping lists, contact lists, to-do lists, bucket lists, packing lists, mailing lists,…

Distillery: a Response to Kinohi Nishikawa

Compression counts, and not just for poems and tourniquets. In “RT = Endorsement,” Kinohi gives us a version of academic Twitter as the distillery of good scholarship and good sentence-craft,…

To Collaborate is to Become Entangled

“We are at stake to each other.”— Donna Haraway “The two of us wrote Anti-Oedipus together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd.” — Deleuze &…