Tag: Authors

Why Representation Matters

The sixth grade stands out for me as one of those important milestones in life. As an adult, I have numerous precise moments of recollection where a memory…

Feminist Killjoys

In my ‘Problems and Issues in Feminist Theory’ graduate course in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, my professor assigned a new release in feminist and queer theory…

“This Is Water”: Finding Empathy in the Banalities of Daily Living

I was first introduced to David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” in a Language and Composition class. Our textbook was full of examples of rhetoric, categorized by topic….

The Power of Superheroes

In this podcast excerpt with National Humanities Center Director Robert D. Newman, award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem discusses how he came to understand of the power of fiction in…

“I Saw, in Stephen Dedalus, Myself”

In this excerpt from a conversation with William Ferris, former Chairman of the National Endowment of the Humanities, he shares how he came to see himself in Stephen…