“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Ph.D Congrats

Three students are all but done:

Andrew Hageman, machinic tropes in literature and culture (in particular cyberpunk);
Sarah Juliet Lauro, the figure of the zombie in literature and culture;
Rachel Swinkin, sentimentality and animals in eighteenth-century literature and culture.

Great to see these wrapping up. They will join Clara Van Zanten, who has a very fine dissertation on figures of weather in John Ashbery.

Others are just starting out--perhaps I'll mention them in a future post.



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