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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…

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…

“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…

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,…

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,…

“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 &…

Let me begin with a true story: when I was teaching in Berlin, a colleague there shared his lecture notes with me for a large introductory seminar. I couldn’t believe…