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Literary Kinds 2012 - Web Paper 1

These are the first webpapers to emerge from Literary Kinds: Thinking Through Genres, a course about category-making offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2012. One month into the semester, students are exploring what differences the internet is making in our work as intellectuals.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, others in the class, or those who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about the evolution of literary "kinds"?

 

Critical Feminist Studies 2012 - Web Paper # 4

Welcome to Critical Feminist Studies, a course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2012. Here you will find the final web events all of the the students pursued individually as they completed their course work.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about the shape and sound of feminism today?

 

Critical Feminist Studies 2012 - Web Paper # 3

Welcome to Critical Feminist Studies, a course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2012. Three months into the semester, students are exploring questions that have arisen for them in the course of our discussions of Eugenides' novel Middlesex, Bornstein's Gender Workbook, Kristof and WuDunn's Half the Sky, Query and Funari's Live Nude Girls Unite!, hooks' Feminism is for Everybody, Bannon's The Undefeated, Kimmel's "Masculinity as Homophobia," and Ware's Jimmy Corrigan.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about the shape and sound of feminism today?

 

Critical Feminist Studies 2012 - Web Paper # 2

Welcome to Critical Feminist Studies, a course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2012. Two months into the semester, students are writing about ...

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about the shape and sound of feminism around the world today?

 

Critical Feminist Studies 2012 - Web Papers #1

These are the first webpapers to emerge from Critical Feminist Studies, a course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2012. One month into the semester, students are writing here about ...

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about the shape and sound of feminism today?

 

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"Called Me Crazy": Insanity and Non-Normative, Butch Identities

Submitted by jfwright on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 8:16pm
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          As Eli Clare describes in Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation, queer identity has been treated as madness, and queer people have been pathogized and condescended to for centuries:

“[q]ueer identity has been pathologized and medicalized. Until 1973, homosexuality wasconsidered a psychiatric disorder. Today transsexuality and transgenderism, under the names of gender dysphoria and gender identity disorder, are classified as psychiatric conditions. Queerness is all too frequently intertwined with shame, silence, and isolation…[q]ueer people deal with gawking all the time: when we hold hands in public, defy gender boundaries and norms, insist on recognition for our relationships and families…Queer people have been told for centuries by church, state, and science that our bodies are abnormal” (Clare 2009:112-113).

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Transects Evolit Final Paper

Submitted by Gavia on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 4:30pm

Final Project: Comparison


      I noticed partway through this course that the concept of storytelling has actually been use in a number of the courses I have taken so for, though it has been presented in different ways and for different purposes.  I have had the experience of three separate professors in three different disciplines give me a very similar assignment.  I found that, when I looked at these pieces in conjunction with this course that they seemed much more connected than I thought they were, I was able to trace some of my own academic development through them, and the styles I used to present them clearly showed how each class biased my presentation.

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What is the revolutionary potential of comics as a medium?

Submitted by AnnaP on Fri, 05/06/2011 - 8:19pm

Hello classmates, professors, and visitors!

As the culmination of The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories, I have created a comic in dialogue with Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics that is meant to complement his work by both demonstrating how his ideas are useful and also highlighting some things that he left out of his theory of comics as a revolutionary medium.

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AnnaP's Final Presentation Write-up

Submitted by AnnaP on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 10:03pm

My final project was a collaborative one with cr88, in which we created word clouds of the full texts of The Plague and The Origin of Species to look at 1) the differences and commonalities between scientific and literary texts, as embodied by this bizarre representational form, and 2) different forms of literary analysis outside of the ones we are used to and how they can be useful. These were the images we produced:

The Origin of Species

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Evolution of Genres in Latin American Literature: The Birth of the Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative)

Submitted by cwalker on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 4:00am

Coral A. Walker

April 15, 2011

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Evolution of Genres in Latin American Literature:

The Birth of the Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative)

 

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