Beginning of a blog series on Criticism. Starts with a bit of an autobiographical account of how I actually became critic.
#sff #literarycriticism #literarytheory #sociologyofliterature #academia #queertheory #criticism
https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/criticism-for-interesting-times-1-introduction-how-i-became-a-critic/

Shakespeare Teachers Strike Back: Three strategies for engaging in politically responsive pedagogy in the age of (another) DEI backlash

#LanguageAndLiterature #LiteraryStudies #LiteraryTheory #Shakespeare #Education #Theatre #Arts #TheatreArts #DiversityEquityInclusion #EquityDiversityAndInclusion

https://euppublishingblog.com/2024/09/17/shakespeare-pedagogy-in-the-age-of-another-dei-backlash/

I'm a #professor of #arthistory, #theory, and #criticism in Chicago. I'd like to use this platform to exchange ideas about #postmodern and #contemporary #experimental #fiction, especially #maximalist, including #Joyce, #robertmusil, #georgesperec, #witoldgombrowicz, #miklosszentkuthy, #arnoschmidt, #mariannefritz, #thomasbernhard, #fernandopessoa, #marcelproust, #ingeborgbachmann, #peterhandke, and delated #literarycriticism, #literarytheory, #literaryhistory, #publishing, #bookreviews