Category: History
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HASTAC Dialogues | Challenging Canons and Traversing the Frontiers of Digital Literatures: A Conversation with Nazua Idris and Hiranya Mukherjee
On Sunday, 24 March 2024, HASTAC Scholars Nazua Idris and Hiranya Mukherjee met to have a conversation about their fields of research. As the conversation continued, both Nazua and Hiranya discovered that their research interests intersect as both of them pushed against the established canon in English Studies through their research. They started their conversation […]
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HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Stella J. Fritzell
Stella Fritzell is a PhD Candidate in Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College. She received her BA in Classical Studies and Music from Carleton College in 2015, and an MA in Classical Studies from Bryn Mawr College in 2019 with a thesis entitled “Atalanta as a Repoussoir for Erotic & Competitive Ephebic Excellence”. Stella’s dissertation […]
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HASTAC Dialogues | Systems of Storytelling in Classics and Fan Studies: A Conversation with Stella Fritzell and Hannah Mendro | Part 3/3
On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, HASTAC Scholars Stella Fritzell and Hannah Mendro met to discuss some exciting intersections between their work in the fields of Classics and Fan Studies. Part III: Liberatory Potentials of Storytelling.
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HASTAC Dialogues | Systems of Storytelling in Classics and Fan Studies: A Conversation with Stella Fritzell and Hannah Mendro | Part 2/3
On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, HASTAC Scholars Stella Fritzell and Hannah Mendro met to discuss some exciting intersections between their work in the fields of Classics and Fan Studies. Part II: Narrative Potentials and Positions.
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HASTAC Dialogues | Systems of Storytelling in Classics and Fan Studies: A Conversation with Stella Fritzell and Hannah Mendro | Part 1/3
On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, HASTAC Scholars Stella Fritzell and Hannah Mendro met to discuss some exciting intersections between their work in the fields of Classics and Fan Studies. Part I: Myth and Narrative Media.
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Introductory Blog
Hi, everyone! My name is Rayana Brown. I currently attend Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. I am interested in African American Literature, and I think it is important to focus on how black communities in Mississippi share their histories and stories! I will do a project on Douglas Conner’s, a NAACP activist and Black […]
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Images of Enclosure
When I first began researching madwomen, my search began in literature. I combed through books, short stories, and poetry across periods. I found so much madness not only in the characters but in the writers’ own lives. Writing, after all, is an extension of ourselves and our circumstances. If so many female writers were experiencing […]
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On mapping
“Maps are not territory; they are spaces, spaces to be crossed and recrossed and experienced from every angle. The only way to understand a map is to get down into it, to play at the edges, to jump into the center and back out again. We need to trace and retrace its lines by […]
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The Things We Believe In: Thoughts on Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling’s “A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear”
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling’s 2020 book A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear: The Utopian Plot To Liberate An American Town (And Some Bears) offers a glimpse at the socio-political equivalent of a train crash. The author’s excavation of the history of Grafton, New Hampshire, and his interviews with its residents etch humorous, yet haunting portrayals of a […]
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Reflecting on a Year of Book Collecting
In a way, a cookbook is a little world of its own. There is something magical that happens when you read, say, Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking or Samin Nosrat’s Salt Fat Acid Heat. In a sense, yes, they are short scripts of instructions dictating the preparation of specific items of food, […]