Amy H. Sturgis's Blog, page 12
January 10, 2024
This promises to be a terrific online event! Thursday, January 11, 2024.
This promises to be a terrific online event! Thursday, January 11, 2024.
January 5, 2024
Trek Talks is coming! It’s practically here! Join me for Trek Talks 3, an annual Star Trek telethon…
Trek Talks – The annual streaming telethon inspired by Star Trek to benefit Hollywood Food Coalition
Trek Talks is coming! It’s practically here! Join me for Trek Talks 3, an annual Star Trek telethon in support of The Hollywood Food Coalition on January 13, 2024.
January 4, 2024
FYI, here’s a new call for papers for the academic anthology Second Star to the Right: Essays on…
FYI, here’s a new call for papers for the academic anthology Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek. 🖖
January 2, 2024
Happy World Introvert Day
*raises a book and a coffee in silent salute*
It was a delight to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our new anthology Star Wars: Essays…
ACAFANS: The Rigorous Study of Star Wars
It was a delight to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our new anthology Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away with Josh of Trash Compactor: A Star Wars Podcast.
December 31, 2023
Happy New Year, everyone!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson said it all in “Ring Out, Wild Bells”:
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace…
Read the complete poem here.
December 15, 2023
Meet The Last Man!
Meet The Last Man!
In March 2024, I will be offering the module “Meet The Last Man” with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) online via Signum University.
Mary Shelley’s novel The Last Man is one of the most relevant books we can read right now, and I’m really looking forward to exploring it with students!
December 14, 2023
Happy Birthday, Shirley Jackson!
On this day in 1916, the great Shirley Jackson was born.
Here’s a little piece I wrote earlier this year about teaching Jackson’s remarkable novel Hangsaman. It’s posted at “Reading Shirley Jackson in the 21st Century,” an online resource investigating the past and future landscapes of Shirley Jackson studies.
I’m looking forward to teaching The Haunting of Hill House in January!
Teaching Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman (1951) by Amy H. Sturgis
December 12, 2023
Two Visits to Hill House!
I’ll be starting 2024 with two visits to Hill House! I’m joining SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) online with Signum University. My first modules include The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (January) and its authorized sequel, A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand (February).
Registration is now open for January’s module. Voting is now open for February’s module. Here are more details. I hope to see you in SPACE!
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November 27, 2023
Dice in Mind Interview
It was a delight to join Emily Strand, with whom I co-edited the anthologies Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier and Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away (both 2023 from Vernon Press), to talk Star Trek and Star Wars with the Dice in Mind podcast. Dice in Mind is a podcast hosted by Brad Browne and Jason Kaufman that explores the intersection of life, games, science, music, philosophy, and creativity through interviews with leading creatives.
Episode 106: Drs. Amy Sturgis and Emily Strand | Dice in Mind
