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The Blackademic Life: Tracing the History of the Black Academic Novel

December 10, 2019

Prof. Lavelle Porter chronicles the history of the black academic novel and explores the black intellectual’s tumultuous relationship with institutional academia in "The Blackademic Life." Read more ›

‘Middlemarch’ and George Eliot’s Scientific Aspirations

November 22, 2019

| The City College of New York

A new essay by City College of New York Prof. Renata Kobetts Miller takes a deeper look at George Eliot's 1872 masterpiece Middlemarch. Read more ›

Writing Around the Day Job: A Debut Novel Takes Shape

April 12, 2019

| The City College of New York

When Raymond Strom graduated with his M.F.A. from The City College of New York in 2009, he wanted to do what he’d just attended school for: write. But life had a different plan. Read more ›

Illustration of a German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel from 1875

From Logic to Literature and Back Again: Interpreting Hegel

April 4, 2019

| Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center

Narrating the present moment as it happens can be difficult, but one philosophy professor proposes turning to Hegel in order to help. Read more ›

Two women pose by the seashore, ca. 1910

How Gender and Sexuality Shaped Modernism

March 1, 2019

| John Jay College of Criminal Justice

A new book traces how gender and sexuality studies have transformed what scholars know about modernism. Read more ›

The Actress’ Influence on Victorian Writing

February 27, 2019

| The City College of New York

A new literary and cultural history investigates how the Victorian actress influenced novelists of the time. Read more ›

SNAPSHOT: Slavery, Freedom, and Marronage

January 30, 2019

| Hostos Community College

A new interpretation of Martin R. Delany's 19th century novel about slavery, 'Blake,' views the main character's quest for rebellion as a portrait of “marronage.” Read more ›

Neurological Diversity in Literature

September 19, 2018

| Queens College, The Graduate Center

Science traditionally explains brain illnesses, neurological diseases, and developmental disorders by turning to the facts, but literature may offer a more subjective explanation of such experiences. Read more ›

Tracing Autistic Expression in Literature

August 31, 2018

| Bronx Community College

A new book positions “devalued” autistic language alongside “valued” literary and poetic language in order to shift how readers view autistic expression. Read more ›

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