Focus: Listening — Fall 2024
nina2025-02-12T15:08:18+00:00Listening as an aesthetic, atmospheric phenomenon
Focus: Conspiracy Theories — Spring 2024
nina2025-02-12T15:08:22+00:00Conspiracy theories, disinformation, and meaning-making
Focus: Digital Art — Winter 2023
nina2025-02-12T15:08:23+00:00Aesthetic experience in the digital age
Focus: Rethinking Classics — Fall 2023
nina2025-02-12T15:08:24+00:00Vital and changing studies of the ancient world
Focus: Rejections — Summer 2023
nina2025-02-12T15:08:25+00:00Rejection is the universe’s way of affirming one’s existence
Focus: Weak Theory — Spring 2023
nina2025-02-12T15:08:26+00:00Weak theory is a relatively recent concept that has emerged explicitly in the debates surrounding surface reading and affect aesthetics.
Focus: The New Campus Novel — Winter 2022
nina2025-02-12T15:08:26+00:00New campus novels often center on the experiences of graduate students rather than professors, offering new perspectives, identities, and hierarchies.
Focus: Soldier Writing — Fall 2022
nina2025-02-12T15:08:27+00:00Like the Beats and like “The Lost Generation,” the post-9/11 soldier-writers cannot be appreciated without a reckoning with their generation’s war.
Focus: Autofiction and Autotheory — Summer 2022
nina2025-02-12T15:08:28+00:00Autofiction has been conceived of as a hybrid genre, mixing the referential and the fictional. Autotheory is aimed against the conventions of academic discourse, often having a manifesto-like quality.
Focus: Pandemic Poetry — Spring 2022
nina2025-02-12T15:08:28+00:00Online publications, Zoom readings, and numerous themed issues in literary magazines, anthologies, and collections offer a powerful poetic testimony of the pandemic.
