Mary Toft Lives

Our final show just wrapped! This summer, I've been working with the amazingly talented Jon Gann to produce a Capital Fringe 2016 show on the famous "Rabbit Woman of Godalming," who gave birth to a series of rabbits--in parts--over the course of a few months in 1726. It was a song cycle, each song in …

Found it!

Todorov, Literature and Signification, quoted in Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism (1972, Princeton): Every work, every novel, tells through its fabric of events the story of its own creation, its own history... The meaning of a work lies in its telling of itself, its speaking of its …

Student video projects

I was so impressed with my students' final projects in Visual and Cultural Studies! Overall, they made a very strong showing in their five-minute critical analysis videos. The assignment was fairly open in terms of content, as we were spending several evenings conducting hands-on work in the multimedia lab, but in general, I'd asked them …