by EILEEN A. JOY I am slowly recovering from the biennial meeting of the New Chaucer Society held just this past week in Portland, Oregon (22-26 July 2012), where I participated in a really invigorating seminar session organized by Ruth Evans on the Descriptive Turn in literary studies, which brought together myself, Julie Orlemanski, Sarah[…]
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your garden shears. ~Lowell Duckert, “Recreation” The roundtable session on “Ecologies,” organized by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and sponsored by George Washington University’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute [GW-MEMSI] for the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan this past May, was a memorable event, featuring lively, provocative,[…]
Figure 1. Aranye Fradenburg delivering her plenary address at the 1st Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, Austin, Texas [Nov. 2010] by EILEEN JOY . . . obscure / forces are at work / like a radio left on / On the outskirts of / identical cities. ~Ben Lerner, “Doppler Elegies” Like a radio[…]
by EILEEN JOY What enables us to risk change is the feeling that we are understood and (therefore) accompanied. –L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, “Living Chaucer” Jeffrey Cohen blogged at In The Middle a few weeks ago about the Exemplaria conference, held in early February at University of Texas-Austin, on “Surface, Symptom, and the State of[…]
by EILEEN JOY I just thought I would share with everyone here a talk I recently delivered at George Washington University as part of a symposium on “Ecological Movement,” sponsored by GW’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, and which also featured remarks from Jennifer James, Lowell Duckert, and Stacy Alaimo. I share it in[…]
by EILEEN JOY I’m truly excited [am I ever not excited? should I be less excited sometimes? what’s wrong with me?] to announce that on TUESDAY, APRIL 17th, starting at 7:00 pm, punctum books and The Public School New York will be co-hosting in Brooklyn, at Observatory, a panel discussion on para-academic publishing and also[…]
by EILEEN JOY To become adult in our culture (which for most of us means to become compliantly productive) is . . . to be increasingly disabled for the kinds of humorous and dire, purposeful play that creates geometries of attention revelatory of silences in the terrifying tenses that elude official grammars. –Joan Retallack, The[…]
by EILEEN JOY Yes, Virginia, there is a Swedish Twitter University, and I am going to give a Twitter lecture for them, “More Notes Toward a Speculative Realist Literary Criticism,” tomorrow at 8:00 pm GMT, which means 3:00 pm for you East-Coasters and so on and so forth, according to your own timeline. The Swedish[…]