"Dublin Core:Title","Dublin Core:Subject","Dublin Core:Description","Dublin Core:Creator","Dublin Core:Source","Dublin Core:Publisher","Dublin Core:Date","Dublin Core:Contributor","Dublin Core:Rights","Dublin Core:Relation","Dublin Core:Format","Dublin Core:Language","Dublin Core:Type","Dublin Core:Identifier","Dublin Core:Coverage","Item Type Metadata:Text","Item Type Metadata:Interviewer","Item Type Metadata:Interviewee","Item Type Metadata:Location","Item Type Metadata:Transcription","Item Type Metadata:Local URL","Item Type Metadata:Original Format","Item Type Metadata:Physical Dimensions","Item Type Metadata:Duration","Item Type Metadata:Compression","Item Type Metadata:Producer","Item Type Metadata:Director","Item Type Metadata:Bit Rate/Frequency","Item Type Metadata:Time Summary","Item Type Metadata:Email Body","Item Type Metadata:Subject Line","Item Type Metadata:From","Item Type Metadata:To","Item Type Metadata:CC","Item Type Metadata:BCC","Item Type Metadata:Number of Attachments","Item Type Metadata:Standards","Item Type Metadata:Objectives","Item Type Metadata:Materials","Item Type Metadata:Lesson Plan Text","Item Type Metadata:URL","Item Type Metadata:Event Type","Item Type Metadata:Participants","Item Type Metadata:Birth Date","Item Type Metadata:Birthplace","Item Type Metadata:Death Date","Item Type Metadata:Occupation","Item Type Metadata:Biographical Text","Item Type Metadata:Bibliography","Item Type Metadata:Player","Item Type Metadata:Imported Thumbnail","Item Type Metadata:Referrer",tags,file,itemType,collection,public,featured "Homeschooling & the Humanities",,"When shelter at home was enacted in Alachua County my daily routine changed instantly. Luckily, that has been the only major change to my life. Whereas I used to spend most of my time studying or with friends, now a good chunk of my time is devoted to homeschooling my nieces. Like a lot of other essential workers across the country, my sister and her husband are unable to stay home. I’m an international studies major in my freshman year at UF. In other words, my qualifications do not include a teaching degree, let alone a college degree. Those reading this may already be familiar with teaching their own kids during quarantine, in which case I empathize with you. Currently, as I write this my four-year-old niece sings the national anthem while tangled in a soccer goal… that she brought inside the kitchen. That’s just to say that the experience has been hectic, surprising, and challenging pretty much all of the time. At the same time, I feel so grateful that the pandemic has brought me closer to my wild, curious, sweet, and most importantly, healthy, nieces. I know that the pandemic has caused tremendous suffering all over the world. I think homeschooling has allowed me to better understand the question, “what does it mean to be human?” It has allowed me to understand grief in the form of a funeral for a dead lizard. It has allowed me to understand joy in the form of a talent show featuring ukuleles. It has allowed me to understand frustration in the form of never-ending zoom calls. It has allowed me to understand longing in the form of facetime playdates. The humanities are about everything that makes us human, and in my opinion, so is homeschooling.",,,,"April 29, 2020","Isabella Kemp, 19, Student",,,,,,homeschooling-and-the-humanities,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"A professor at UF","Education,Family,Home,Self-Realization",https://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/388/homeschooling_humanities_image.jpg,Text,,1,0 "Genre: Control or Chaos",,"
This episode of Westworld had me at its title, ""Genre."" I have been thinking about genre as part of my academic work since my dissertation, which became my first book, on contemporary (post-1980) neodomestic fiction, and most recently in my work on the contemporary (post-1970) American adrenaline narrative. So, as I sought a moment of escape from home and work via immersion in the alternate reality of a popular television series, my work and entertainment worlds—as so often happens in the humanities—collided.
While the shift from thinking about the American home to extreme sports to a futuristic world may initially strike one as nonsequiturs, our current social distancing reality highlights the distinct and blurred lines between such genres. Our lives are shaped by shifting and competing narratives about home, risk, and our control or lack of control of the future. We engage narrative—via family stories, the news, fiction—to make sense of the chaos. Yet, as the episode from Westworld demonstrates, knowledge may also produce panic, if not pandemonium. Laurence Gonzales in Deep Survival claims, ""We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel"" (64). This is the power and danger of narrative.
",,"Westworld, Season Three, Episode 5, Genre",,"April 12, 2020","Kristin Jacobson, Professor of American Literature, Stockton University",,,,,,genre-control-chaos,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,email,"Emotional Experience,Genre,Home,Professors,Television Series,Westworld",https://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/371/george-coletrain-ZtSl6qxcgus-unsplash.jpg,Text,,1,0