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October 13, 2023 Thanks to Ally Zlatar, a 2023 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. My journey into the realm of art activism was ignited by my personal battle with severe ill health, which included a protracted struggle with an eating disorder spanning over a decade. Throughout my recovery journey, I came to realize that …
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June 2, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week’s blog (https://hmu.edu/2023-5-26-reading-rabelais-part-ii/) concluded with a suggested connection between Book Two of Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel and Monty Python skits. We cannot stop at the end of Book Two, however. Moving into Book Three, we find a lengthy discussion between Pantagruel and …
March 24, 2023 Thanks to Eden Tesfaslassie, HMU 2022 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. In Black Swan, the film utilizes the ballet performance Swan Lake, based on a fairytale, as a frame. The film uses other elements of the fairy tale genre, as evidenced by the character archetypes. The viewer can see characteristics of …
September 17, 2021 Thanks to Rebecca L. Thacker, a 2021 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. Although I won’t deny the pleasures of “art for art’s sake” (I’m no stranger to a lazy day curled up with a plot driven page-turner), as a feminist cultural studies scholar, I’m interested in the role literature can …
August 13, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “Witchery works to scare people, to make them fear growth. But it [growth] has always been necessary, and more than ever now, it is. Otherwise we won’t make it. We won’t survive. That’s what the witchery is counting on: that we will cling …
June 25, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. It is easy to assume that the way things are now is the way that they have always been. For example, visiting a museum is commonplace now, however, museums have not always been around. In fact, “curiosity closets” predate museums and offer a …
May 28, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Pericles, Prince of Tyre: written about 1607, by William Shakespeare”Comus”: written about 1637, by John Milton Last week, I discussed the character of Pericles from Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre. This week, I will continue to explore Shakespeare’s play, but focus on Marina, …
May 14, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. (This article was originally published on Oh, The Humanities on April 29, 2021.) Rebecca Mead’s book My Life in Middlemarch weaves a well-researched narrative that involves land, people, women, love, and story-telling, among other things. Mead incorporates her own journey to underscore the …
May 7, 2021 The Deep by Rivers Solomon — Review by Rebecca Thacker “Our mothers were pregnant African women/Thrown overboard while crossing the Atlantic Ocean on slave ships/We were born breathing water as we did in the womb/We built our home on the sea floor/Unaware of the two-legged surface dwellers/Until their world came to destroy …
April 2, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. As a reader, and a human, I am always drawn towards love’s many dimensions. Unlike Janus who faces in two directions only (forward and backward), love is indescribably complex. For that reason, it absolutely fascinates me. Although Louise Glück’s book Ararat from 1990 …
