This course will introduce you to the new humanist field of oceanic studies, which foregrounds the history of ocean travel and epistemologies over the humanities’ implicit yet traditional and ingrained focus on the nation-state. You will be introduced to these theories by reading literature and viewing films related to one particular topic w…[Read more]

By the end of this course, you will have encountered Sherlock in just about as many media and textual forms as the great detective has disguises: novels, short stories, illustrated serials in The Strand, plays, poems, essays, parodies, TV episodes, silent films, Hollywood films, comic books, and fan fiction. Each unit will require you to complete…[Read more]

Twenty-first century scholarship on Henry James presents an author in line with Deleuze’s characterization of the writer in Dialogues II: that a writer should create “a flux which combines with other fluxes – all the minority-becomings of the world… through which life escapes from the resentment of persons, societies, and reigns,” but what I wou…[Read more]

To explore why many of Christie’s crimes occur in leisure spaces (from golf courses and hunting lodges to palace hotels, seaside resorts, and cruise ships), I want to focus on a few of Christie’s interwar Poirot novels, namely, The Murder on the Links (1923), Peril at End House (1932), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), and Death on the Nile (19…[Read more]

This article investigates Henry James’s digital afterlives by analyzing popular James-themed images and articles that have been shared on the Internet since 2000. Adapting Richard Dawkins’s theory of virality and Michael Anesko’s concept of James’s cultural capital, this article engages with viral content published on websites such as Bustle,…[Read more]

I argue that Williams’s doctor stories must be remembered on our syllabi due to contemporary discursive trends in medical ethics. Treating “The Use of Force” as a case study, I create parallels between its representation of resistance to diphtheria anti-toxin and the rhetoric of “anti-vaxxers” like Jenny McCarthy, Andrew Wakefield, Michelle…[Read more]