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November 22, 2023
The second part of this two-part review is now here:
New “Looking Back on Genre History”My latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment is the first of a two-part review of the anthology AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines, edited by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, and Sarah Dillon, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. It’s now up on the new episode of the StarShipSofa podcast.
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The second part of this two-part review is now here:
November 21, 2023
Join me in SPACE!
I’m delighted to be joining SPACE (Signum Adult Portals for Adult Continuing Education) online with Signum University. My upcoming modules in early 2024 include The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand, and The Last Man by Mary Shelley. I hope to see you in SPACE!
Registration is now open for January’s module, The Haunting of Hill House.
More information on my offered modules is here.
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November 18, 2023
On November 18, 1897, junior student Bertha Lane Mellish vanished from Mount Holyoke College. Her…
ALTOn November 18, 1897, junior student Bertha Lane Mellish vanished from Mount Holyoke College. Her disappearance remains an unsolved mystery.
I’m currently working on a research project that involves the Mellish case. I’ll be posting more! Today it feels especially important to say her name.
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November 17, 2023
Book mood. These novels were inspired by the 1924 Leopold and Loeb case.
ALTBook mood. These novels were inspired by the 1924 Leopold and Loeb case.
From bottom to top, they are These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever (2020), Compulsion by Meyer Levin (1956), Little Brother Fate by Mary-Carter Roberts (1957), and Nothing but the Night by James Yaffe (1957).
A privilege to take part in this BBC Free Thinking on Ursula K Le Guin and “The Ones Who Walk Away…
A privilege to take part in this BBC Free Thinking on Ursula K Le Guin and “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”.
BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
November 16, 2023
November 9, 2023
New Dark Academia Essay!
I’m delighted to say that my essay “Dark Arts and Secret Histories: Investigating Dark Academia” has just been published in the new academic anthology Potterversity from McFarland.
In the piece I define Dark Academia, distinguish the storytelling genre and its history from the aesthetic, and consider why there is an explosion of new DA storytelling happening now.
(One reason of many, I argue, is that authors such as Sarah Gailey, Naomi Novik, Victoria Lee, and R.F. Kuang, among others, were both inspired by the Harry Potter series and moved to push back against J.K. Rowling’s positions through their own works, which offer fresh, diverse perspectives and insightful, timely critiques.)
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November 1, 2023
Fall, leaves, fall
by Emily Brontë
Fall, leaves, fall
by Emily Brontë
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night’s decay
Ushers in a drearier day.
~ Poems from the Moor
October 31, 2023
Halloween 2023: 31 Days of Dark Academia, October 31
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃 I hope you’ve enjoyed this year’s countdown, and I hope you have a fabulous Halloween!
Dark Academia novel: When All the Girls Are Sleeping by Emily Arsenault (2021)
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Most of the girls had simply heard the same things about the Winter Girl over their years at Windham that I had: that her name might be Sarah. That she haunted in January or February. That she knocked on doors or could be seen in a white nightgown in the hallway if you got up and ventured to the bathroom after midnight. That she was to blame for the various weird noises in the building on winter nights. That she had been spurned by a young man and killed herself in her room. One girl said something I hadn’t heard before, though: Some girls say that she’s looking for her replacement. That she’s tired of being a ghost, that she’ll strangle or smother you in your bed if you’re not careful. And then you’re the ghost.
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October 30, 2023
Emily Strand, with whom I co-edited Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away and Star…
Emily Strand, with whom I co-edited Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away and Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier (both from Vernon Press in 2023), is a cosplayer and costumer extraordinaire. Check out her latest essay!
