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Expanding the Canon: Highlighting the Contributions of Contemporary African American Women Authors in Southern Literature

Conversations addressing Southern literature often centralize William Faulkner, Harper Lee, Walker Percy, and Eudora Welty, while overlooking and often excluding the contributions of Black women. This webinar will familiarize educators with various literary works written by contemporary Southern African American women authors and simultaneously provide a framework for analyzing such works within any educational setting. … Continued

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Books Make Great Company: Why We Read in an Age of Social Media

The death of the book and the decline of literary reading have been threatened for over two decades now. How can the humble novel compete with the latest social media apps to capture our attention and connect us to others? And yet the experience of imaginative, immersive, literary reading endures and remains one of humanity’s … Continued

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Nerds in the Woods

Join us as we take a series of virtual audio journeys through the intellectual woods with cohosts Robert D. Newman, Tania Munz, Matthew Booker, and Brooke Andrade as they survey some of the compelling topics being studied by historians and philosophers, scholars of literature, art, and other fields who come to the Center from all over the world.

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That Day and that Professor

Several years ago, I was invited to teach a literary translation class at the college in my small town in Montana, something that was completely out of my profession as I was a civil engineer with a master’s degree in Information Systems. Moreover, it was not part of my remotest dreams but since at the … Continued

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Using Language to Humanize Healthcare

In this video, Dr. Michael Stanley celebrates a philosophy of healthcare that sees patients as more than the sum of their medical symptoms, drawing from the rich legacies of philosophy, mythology, and literature to understand individuals and their circumstances. Sir William Osler, one of the earliest proponents of such logic, articulates the manner in which … Continued

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Genre: Control or Chaos

This episode of Westworld had me at its title, “Genre.” I have been thinking about genre as part of my academic work since my dissertation, which became my first book, on contemporary (post-1980) neodomestic fiction, and most recently in my work on the contemporary (post-1970) American adrenaline narrative. So, as I sought a moment of … Continued

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Safe and Social at Home–with Books

As a librarian, I am always reading, usually two to three books per week. During this time of social distancing and online learning, I have more time for reading at home and am gravitating toward longer Young Adult novels and more non-fiction. Encountering characters from a story and reading about historical events are social activities … Continued

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Who is the Hero of Animal Farm?

When I was in middle school I came to love history, especially Russian history and Hitler’s Germany. This time period intrigued me, plus I learned if I read about communists and Nazis, teachers would leave me alone, and allow me to read. My father recommended George Orwell’s Animal Farm while I was in 8th grade. … Continued

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Giving Value and Thought to the Imaginary

Transcript My name is Katelyn Campbell, and I’m a PhD student in American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. And for my humanities moment, I wanted to start by framing my work. So I study intentional communities, most specifically these very specific radical feminist communities in the 1970s called Womyn’s Lands. … Continued