Slugs & Steins
Oct
11
October Slugs & Steins: Monsters in our Closet: Dealing with Sudden Change
The act of monsterization is not, at its core, very mysterious. Whenever there is an epistemic break, different elements of society attempt to cope by locating the site of disturbance, identifying it as Other, and then mapping that category upon the bodies of the marginalized.
Dec
14
Reading Dickens Today with Professor John Jordan
These days, 150 years after his death in 1870, it is nearly impossible for a week to go by without coming across some reference to Dickens in a news article, movie review, magazine essay, or crossword puzzle clue