Amy H. Sturgis's Blog, page 9
September 16, 2024
New Star Trek Interview!
It was a joy to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our new book Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier with the New Books Network podcast!
September 8, 2024
Happy Star Trek Day!
On this Star Trek Day, as Trek turns 58, I feel tremendous gratitude for the many years of joy I’ve had teaching, writing about, and being inspired by Star Trek and the Trek community.
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2024’s STAR TREK DAY Kicks Off a Global Charity Awareness Campaign
August 30, 2024
Happy birthday, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley!
Happy birthday to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August, 1797 –1 February, 1851)!
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
August 24, 2024
ICYMI, there is a documentary series that highlights the contributions of women and non-binary…
ICYMI, there is a documentary series that highlights the contributions of women and non-binary people in the Star Wars fandom and in related discussions of resilience and resistance. I was delighted to play a small role as a consultant on this project, and I will be sharing it with my graduate students this semester as we discuss Star Wars and popular culture.
It’s Looking for Leia, and all seven episodes are free to watch!
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August 8, 2024
Visit Hill House with me in October 2024!
Just in case you’d like your October to be extra haunted, I’ll be back in SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) online with Signum University. Voting is now open for my October module, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Early voters will determine when our live discussions will meet online. I had so much fun with this before, we’re doing it all over again!
August 2, 2024
I’m delighted to be teaching my “The Meaning of Star Wars” class for M.A. students and…
The Meaning of Star Wars - Signum University
I’m delighted to be teaching my “The Meaning of Star Wars” class for M.A. students and non-degree-seeking auditors online for Signum University in Fall 2024. I have taught a college course on Star Wars (either at the undergraduate or graduate level) every year since 2015.
July 20, 2024
Octavia E. Butler’s must-read masterpiece Parable of the Sower (1993) begins its first chapter on…
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Octavia E. Butler’s “must read” masterpiece Parable of the Sower (1993) begins its first chapter on…
ALTALTOctavia E. Butler’s “must read” masterpiece Parable of the Sower (1993) begins its first chapter on July 20, 2024.
July 14, 2024
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you…
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
- Rumi
July 9, 2024
Happy birthday, Ann Radcliffe!
Happy birthday to the mother of the Gothic, Ann Radcliffe (9 July, 1764 – 7 February, 1823).
“A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
