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Ted Underwood, “Distant Horizons: Reading in the Age of Algorithms”
Proponents of distant reading practices in which …
Meta DuEwa Jones, “Mapping Black Diasporic Memory: The Alchemy of Ekphrasis”
Poets have long used ekphrasis—the vivid descript…
Andrea Brady, “Forms of Verse and Forms of Bondage: Theorizing the Constraints of Lyric Poetry”
In the opening lines of his most famous poem, “To…
Peter Villella, “The Immediacy of Antiquity: Reconstructing Aztec Epic History”
Five hundred years ago—in February 1519—Hernán Co…
Mia Fuller, “Monuments and Mussolini: Contested Landscapes of Memory”
Monuments commemorating historical figures, event…
Matthew Rubery, “Methodologies of Reading in a Neurodiverse World”
For most of us, learning to read is an important …
Matt ffytche, “Art From the Outside: Culture and Mental Illness in the Twentieth Century”
Since at least the early years of the twentieth c…
Alka Patel, “Architectural Matrices: Uncovering the History of the Ghurid Dynasty”
Though it lasted for only a brief period, the Ghu…
Robert Morrison, “Translating Shared Economies of Knowledge in the Renaissance”
Traditionally, accounts of the scientific advance…
Matthew Smith, “Roots, Rock, Reggae: The Social & Political History of an Island’s Music”
Since the 1950s, the sounds of Jamaican reggae ha…