This one weird trick can save you time — UPDATE: MS Word has changed its commenting/review features; the new version of Word handles things more like Google docs, where you have to hit a submit button (or command+return) after you finish a comment…if you forget to do so and try to make a comment further down, well, you get…

LOL. (Forlornly) I used to hate academic advice writing, and maybe I still I do. But I just saw a tweet and it made me laugh a kind of sad laugh. I think…

Text as Context for understanding Mental Health in Hamlet — My lecture today, about mental health in Hamlet, has four parts. I will start Part I by picking up some threads that Dean Kozol started to weave together on Tuesday, discussing the health of the Danish body politic as it declines further in Acts 4 and 5. In Part II…

Texts and Contexts for understanding Health & Wellness in Sociable Letters & Grounds of Natural Philosophy — Hello. I’m Vimala Pasupathi, your Associate Dean in the Honors College and an Associate Professor of English Literature. My areas of expertise are 16th and 17th century English literature with specialties in drama, print history, and also women’s writing. And so, it is my great pleasure to be talking about…

THE HELLSCAPES OF 17TH CENTURY GOVERNANCE & BOOK I OF PARADISE LOST — Today’s lecture is aimed at contextualizing Book I of Paradise Lost, in which we find an army of rebellious angels in the aftermath of a defeat that has sent them falling from Heaven into much less desirable real estate. In many respects, it is not their fall that matters so…

Up Close & From a Distance — Introduction It is my great pleasure to deliver the first lecture on Anna Komnene’s The Alexiad. I’m an Associate Professor of English and a scholar of English Literature, History and Culture. I will spend some of my time today giving you a sense what that means with respect to my own…

Reading to Learn, Remember, Play, Resist — This is a lecture to contexualize the concept of “the margins,” delivered for a first-year honors course in February of 2019. The assigned reading for this lecture included bell hooks’ preface to Feminist Theory: from Margin to Centre, her essay “Choosing the margins as a space of radical openess,” and…

Francis Beaumont’s Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607-ish) — If you did the reading for today, Act 1 of Francis Beaumont’s Knight of the Burning Pestle, you know that Beaumont’s play uses a framing device your editor labels the “induction,” a segment in which a Citizen interrupts the actor delivering a Prologue for a play called The London Merchant…

As-Sulamī’s Dhikr an niswa al-muta c abbidāt as-sūfiyyāt (11th century), Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love (15th century), Margery Kempe’s Book of Margery Kempe (15th Century) — This post is a lecture I delivered in October of 2017 for a first-year Honors Course called Culture & Expression. The readings re: Sufi women can be accessed here. CW: Rape, mentioned briefly below the first image/painting.