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Contemporaries Essays, Forms of the Global Anglophone
Contemporaries Essays, Forms of the Global Anglophone
What’s in a Name?: the Global Anglophone, the Anglosphere, and the English-Speaking Peoples
What does it mean to “do” Global Anglophone Studies at a time when an ordinary conversation in Spanish in a New York restaurant could propel a customer into such a…
Contemporaries Essays, Forms of the Global Anglophone
Introduction: Forms of the Global Anglophone
What does the term “Global Anglophone” signify? As a new Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone and English Literature, I should ostensibly have an answer to this question since it was…
Contemporaries Essays, How We Write (Well)
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…
Contemporaries Essays, How We Write (Well)
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…
Contemporaries Essays, How We Write (Well)
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…
Contemporaries Essays, How We Write (Well)
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,…
Contemporaries Essays, How We Write (Well)
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,…