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Eileen Joy deposited The Arts of Living / Epicurean Rain in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis short essay, co-authored with L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, in the edited 2-volume collection BURN AFTER READING, eds. Eileen A. Joy, Myra Seaman, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Oliphaunt Books, 2014), ruminates the importance of the humanities as an important space for the artfulness of living, for enriched environments, and real-time experimental…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited The Arts of Living / Epicurean Rain in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis short essay, co-authored with L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, in the edited 2-volume collection BURN AFTER READING, eds. Eileen A. Joy, Myra Seaman, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Oliphaunt Books, 2014), ruminates the importance of the humanities as an important space for the artfulness of living, for enriched environments, and real-time experimental…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Burn After Reading: Volume 1. Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies + Volume 2: The Future We Want: A Collaboration in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe essays, manifestos, rants, screeds, pleas, soliloquies, telegrams, broadsides, eulogies, songs, harangues, confessions, laments, and acts of poetic terrorism in these two volumes — which collectively form an academic “rave” — were culled, with some later additions, from roundtable sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Burn After Reading: Volume 1. Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies + Volume 2: The Future We Want: A Collaboration in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe essays, manifestos, rants, screeds, pleas, soliloquies, telegrams, broadsides, eulogies, songs, harangues, confessions, laments, and acts of poetic terrorism in these two volumes — which collectively form an academic “rave” — were culled, with some later additions, from roundtable sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Burn After Reading: Volume 1. Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies + Volume 2: The Future We Want: A Collaboration in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe essays, manifestos, rants, screeds, pleas, soliloquies, telegrams, broadsides, eulogies, songs, harangues, confessions, laments, and acts of poetic terrorism in these two volumes — which collectively form an academic “rave” — were culled, with some later additions, from roundtable sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Burn After Reading: Volume 1. Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies + Volume 2: The Future We Want: A Collaboration in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe essays, manifestos, rants, screeds, pleas, soliloquies, telegrams, broadsides, eulogies, songs, harangues, confessions, laments, and acts of poetic terrorism in these two volumes — which collectively form an academic “rave” — were culled, with some later additions, from roundtable sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Burn After Reading: Volume 1. Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies + Volume 2: The Future We Want: A Collaboration in the group
Anglo-Saxon / Old English on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe essays, manifestos, rants, screeds, pleas, soliloquies, telegrams, broadsides, eulogies, songs, harangues, confessions, laments, and acts of poetic terrorism in these two volumes — which collectively form an academic “rave” — were culled, with some later additions, from roundtable sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe work of L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, especially her psychoanalytic criticism of Chaucer, and her formulations of discontinuist historical approaches to the Middle Ages, has been extremely influential within medieval studies for several decades. More recently she has been focusing on more broad defenses of the humanities, especially with regard to…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg in the group
Medieval English Literature on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe work of L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, especially her psychoanalytic criticism of Chaucer, and her formulations of discontinuist historical approaches to the Middle Ages, has been extremely influential within medieval studies for several decades. More recently she has been focusing on more broad defenses of the humanities, especially with regard to…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe work of L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, especially her psychoanalytic criticism of Chaucer, and her formulations of discontinuist historical approaches to the Middle Ages, has been extremely influential within medieval studies for several decades. More recently she has been focusing on more broad defenses of the humanities, especially with regard to…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe work of L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, especially her psychoanalytic criticism of Chaucer, and her formulations of discontinuist historical approaches to the Middle Ages, has been extremely influential within medieval studies for several decades. More recently she has been focusing on more broad defenses of the humanities, especially with regard to…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg in the group
Anglo-Saxon / Old English on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe work of L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, especially her psychoanalytic criticism of Chaucer, and her formulations of discontinuist historical approaches to the Middle Ages, has been extremely influential within medieval studies for several decades. More recently she has been focusing on more broad defenses of the humanities, especially with regard to…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Here Be Monsters: A Punctum Publishing Primer on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
Relative to many of the ongoing discussions and debates around the changing (and often precarious) landscapes of scholarly publishing, and especially around Open Access publishing, we at punctum books have put together a sort of “primer” (which also serves as our own, expanded vision statement) on what we see as the perils of the commodification…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited A Confession of Faith: Notes Toward a New Humanism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
The introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Narrative Theory, edited by Eileen Joy and Christine Neufeld, on “Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project.” This essay sketches out a blueprint for pursuing new “critical humanisms” in a post/human age.
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Eileen Joy deposited Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
This special issue of the “Journal of Narrative Theory” represents one of the BABEL Working Group’s first forays into a collaborative and “baggy” humanistic scholarship between medieval studies, more contemporary humanistic studies, and the sciences, with the objective of interrogating together the open terms, “human,” “humanity,” “humanism,”…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Exteriority Is Not a Negation, But a Marvel: Hospitality, Terrorism, Levinas, Beowulf on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
This essay considers Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of hospitality in relation to the “isolated and heroic being that the state produces by its virile virtues,” through an analysis of female Chechen suicide terrorists in contemporary Russia and the figure of Grendel in the Old English poem “Beowulf,” in order to raise some questions about the relat…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Through a Glass, Darkly: Medieval Cultural Studies at the End of History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
In a talk he gave in 1995 at a conference at Georgetown University, “Cultural Frictions: Medieval Cultural Studies in Post-Modern Contexts,” Paul Strohm asserted that “postmodernism is preoccupied with history, endlessly obsessed with history, and with the nature of the claims the past exerts upon us; it might almost be called a way of thinking…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that, when certain medieval and contemporary cultural texts are placed alongside each other — such as a fourteenth-century penitential handbook and the reality television show “Survivor,” or early fifteenth-century Lancastrian statecraft (Henry IV) and the stagecraft of George W. Bush’s presidential…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Christina McPhee: A Commonplace Book on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
Christina McPhee’s ‘commonplace book’ draws from a palimpsest of handwritten notes, lists, quotations, bibliographic fragments, and sketches, from an artist whose voracious reading practice is a direct feed into her life and art — all set to a visual and textual design-as-score, as prominent writers on painting, media arts, performance, video i…[Read more]
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Although widely beloved for its playfulness and comic sensibility, Chaucer’s poetry is also subtly shot through with dark moments that open into obscure and irresolvably haunting vistas, passages into which one might fall head-first and never reach the abyssal bottom, scenes and events where everything could possibly go horribly wrong or where e…[Read more]
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