In “Weaving and Thinking Otherwise,” I knew I had thoughts about sock-knitting, but wasn’t sure what they were yet. Here’s a version of them (which I tried out on Twitter just now): There comes a moment in every sock-knitter’s life
ENGL 372 Caribbean Literature, Fall 2018
TuTh 11:30-12:45, room TBC In this course we will read contemporary works from the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking literatures of the Caribbean (all texts will be read in English), comprising a mixture of “canonical” and emerging authors. Lectures (rare) and
What happens when I succumb to Facebook challenges
Someone I love tagged me in on one of those Facebook “list” challenges – the only kind I can’t resist, which is the kind about books. “Name ten books that blew your mind when you first read them.” What first
Pointers for students writing literary-criticism papers
Have a title. Ideally, it should both grab your readers’ attention and tell them something about the paper. As much as possible, try to organize the paper by the logic of your argument, not the chronology of the text. Avoid
Weaving and Thinking Otherwise
Handweavers tend to be looked upon as dinosaurs who are doing something that really doesn’t need to be done – “Why would you bother?” And I think that we have something to offer the world that is best expressed through
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
… was a big deal as a novel (which I haven’t read), and they made a mini-series out of it, which I watched on Netflix, and it was good. But. There was a character, Stephen Black – and I imagine he
What to do about monuments
Maybe we stop trying to take down the Confederate monuments; maybe, instead, we erect our own: monuments to the rebellious enslaved; monuments to anti-slavery activists and their allies; monuments to emancipation. (Coming from the Caribbean, where these are everywhere, I
My scattered writing life
Now – after two conferences earlier this semester – I am back to writing in a largely self-directed manner (that is, without the pressing exigency of deadlines), largely about what I like. I am trying to embrace the somewhat scattered results
Author Talk by Dr Carol Bailey, Du Bois Library Rm 2601, Oct 19, 5-7pm
Courses I’m hoping to teach, maybe next year, pt 2
Caribbean Revolutions and Their Afterlives Description: The vision for this course is to introduce students to narratives (across multiple genres) about Cuba and Haiti that will encourage them to think about the ways these two (post-)revolutionary Caribbean nations circulate in contemporary