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Place and Space in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon

In the introduction of Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo," she writes: After three days, they were incarcerated in...

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Why Are Academic Websites So Ugly?

In my research I look for the nineteenth-century American poems that I believe have been wronged by being printed in physical books, and I create...

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Willful Women in Fairy Tales

In her book Living a Feminist Life, Sarah Ahmed relays the Brothers Grimm tale of “The Willful Child,” where a girl is so willful against her parents...

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Translating Sicilianness

In the PSA journal's 31st edition the PSA editors asked a group of their contributors to talk about the ‘biggest issues facing translators’ of...

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CFP: for the Special Issue of Intertexts: "Epistemology as Border(land)s in the Age of Globalization"

Call for Papers for the Special Issue of Intertexts: A Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection Epistemology as Border(land)s in the Age of...

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ZORA! Festival Facebook Page: Space, Genre, and Online Presence (Introduction)

I think it's interesting how online spaces are carriers of cultural identity; no matter where a person is on the planet, online spaces are used to...

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Discussion of Numbered Lives, Introduction and Conclusion (Rebecca Uliasz)

This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018) , by...

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Pirandello and Translation: A conversation across the Field

In the PSA journal’s 31st edition, which is currently at the presses, editors Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka talk to a group of Pirandello’s...

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Oxford English Dictionary free webinar with University of Helsinki

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(Free webinar) The OED and historical text collections: discovering new words

Join us for this free webinar about neologism use, and large historical text collections in digital humanities Hosted by the Oxford English...

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PSA in conversation with Spurl Editions Press

William Weaver’s compelling translation of One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand ( Uno, nessuno centomila ) was first published in 1990 and has since...

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