Allen Ginsberg, Religious Experience and the Anxiety of ‘Othering’
by Jonas Faust Throughout his five-decade career, Beat-poet-turned-countercultural-icon Allen Ginsberg [1] presented himself in- and outside of his poetic work...
Tagged: literary studies
The Confinement of Outer Space
By Annika Elstermann To begin, let us look towards the stars. Culturally, the firmament has always held a fascination for...
Crime, Class, and the City: Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle (2021)
by Valentina Lopez Liendo Where do you go as a writer after being awarded back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes? Somewhere where you...
Writing The Modern Mother: The Complex Struggles of Motherhood in Brit Bennett’s The Mothers (2016)
By Johanna Decker Mothers have served as some of the most beloved heroines, but also as some of the most...
Reading Colson Whitehead
By Valentina López Liendo Colson Whitehead is perhaps most widely known for his latest two novels The Underground Railroad (2016),...
GKAT2020 Conference Report: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives on Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics
by David F. Eisler Three years after inaugurating the HCA’s research training group on “Authority and Trust in American Culture,...
The Art of the Quote: Trump, Social Media, and the Uses of Literary Reference
by Tim Sommer There’s a lot one can squeeze into a 280-character tweet – an insight that few users of...
2019 in Books – Come for the Novels, Stay for the Dinosaurs
By David Eisler When I started working on a PhD in American literature back in 2017, I didn’t want...