Talking of Michelangelo
"In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo." (T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock") While writing a...
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Jan 22, 20237 min read
The rise of the house of Usher: Standardisation and the decline of the value proposition in post-sec
What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble;...
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ngsmith49
Jan 22, 20234 min read
Reading the Introductions of Mabinogi(on) Translations
There is an abundance of information to be found in the various introductions of the different Mabinogi translations (occasionally titled...
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ngsmith49
Jan 20, 20233 min read
Introductions and Work
Hello, World! You'll perhaps forgive me for being slightly deficient in technological skills (despite the admittedly dated reference...
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davide.pafumi
Jan 15, 20232 min read
Body Authonomy or Authonomy of the Body?
Foucault discusses biopower and biopolitics extensively in his works. He defines biopolitics as the use of institutionalised authority to...
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Barbara Bordalejo
Dec 22, 20221 min read
Welcome, Frank!
The Humanities Innovation Lab welcomes its newest member, Frank Onuh, who will work on text analysis of political discourse and hate...
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Barbara Bordalejo
Dec 22, 20221 min read
Congratulations, Khalid!
We are proud to congratulate Khalid on the successful defence of his thesis, The History of English in Bangladesh. Khalid showed mastery...
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morganpearce3
Dec 12, 20223 min read
Medieval Melancholia and Depression (Pt. 1)
Continuing my journey through the game Pentiment, I came across an especially resonant part of the game. In order to convey its full...
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davide.pafumi
Dec 11, 20222 min read
Does the Procedure Really Make the Product?
One of the things you hear more frequently in the eternal fight between French and Italian cuisine is that the first with respect to the...
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davide.pafumi
Dec 3, 20223 min read
Pedagogy of Dissent or Pedagogy of Consent?
In one of my classes, my instructor introduced an intriguing concept that has since been a source of personal rumination: the concept of...
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morganpearce3
Nov 28, 20223 min read
Pentiment: Art, Writing, and Change
"Italian pentimento repentance, remorse (a1257), change of opinion (1630), correction (a1827)" (OED). With my free time lately, I have...
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davide.pafumi
Nov 25, 20222 min read
The Funnel Model
Thinking back on a guest lecture I gave last week, it occurred to me a conversation I had in the classroom with some students. The topic...
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Nov 20, 20224 min read
Yet another blog about twitter... It reminds me of listservs in the 1990s.
It’s been interesting watching how the last few weeks have played out on Twitter.
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davide.pafumi
Nov 20, 20222 min read
Stories of Bows and Arrows and their Cultural Significance
Insistent references to the bow in 14th- and 15th-century literary sources seem at first glance incomprehensible. Bow and arrows are...
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Barbara Bordalejo
Nov 19, 20223 min read
The Rise of Fast Books or Instant Mash Ain’t Mashed Potatoes
Last week, Dan posted a few notes on bookbinding in which he wondered about the swiftness of the 19-century binding in reference to the...
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Nov 13, 20220 min read
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davide.pafumi
Nov 12, 20223 min read
Literary Leprosy in 15-century Scotland
In an excellent case study on Henryson's "The Testament of Cressid", Ellis Herndon Hutson (1972) identifies the symptoms of the literary...
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Barbara Bordalejo
Nov 8, 20223 min read
The Decline of the Sacred
While preparing a conference abstract, I reread Stephen Marche's article; Literature is not Data.” Although he writes positively about...
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davide.pafumi
Oct 31, 20222 min read
Emotions in Middle Ages
Rosenwien's (2002) exposé on the historical study of human emotions devotes an extensive part that covers emotion in medieval life. From...
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