Note: This post is an excerpt of a syllabus for a course taught in Fall 2021, led by Min Hyoung Song (English) and Hilary Palevsky (Earth and Environmental Sciences) with […]

The following is my introduction to Min Jin Lee for her virtual talk at Boston College, as part of its Lowell Humanities Series. Today is my 51st birthday. This has […]

TV (because let’s be real, this is how a lot of us are spending our time these days) The Expanse (streaming on Amazon Prime) – An extraordinary series, based on […]

DESCRIPTION The literary scholar Kate Marshall recently argued that critics interested in climate change often fall prey to “a demand for content,” which she describes as “an idea that the […]

On the way to the airport, my driver, who is maybe in his late twenties, asks, – You Korean? I can tell just by looking at you. I have a […]

It’s January. A year ago today we were trying to acclimate to life in Italy (I was teaching at a school in Venice for the spring semester). A lot happened […]

Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism J. Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure Lisa Cacho, Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitcs” Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth […]

DESCRIPTION This seminar examines works of American fiction published within the past two decades with a special focus on the novel. The reading list highlights the growing diversity of authors […]