I’ve just requested from our library the anthology and the Gluck book, and look forward to reading them. Do you know Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being? A small section of it is devoted to a Japanese father’s fixation on images of the Falling Man, and then his daughter, one of the book’s two protagonists, registers his fixation and feels…[Read more]

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An Eye for an Eye is a historical interpretation of 9/11 that challenges mainstream media representation of the same and October is a deep meditation on the attempt to counter and assimilate traumatic experience. So I highly recommend these two works for our ongoing discussion.
As for the question…[Read more]

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Sorry I’m so late to reply. I  am unfamiliar with the first item above, and am surprising myself not to be familiar with the Gluck book, since I keep up with most of her work. I very much like the rest of the list. At risk of getting slightly off-topic, would you agree that fiction writers have written about 9/11 and its aftermaths more and…[Read more]

Sir,
Thank you a lot for your interest in post 9/11 poetry, especially in Claudia Rankine. The primary literature I have chosen for our discussion is as follows,
1. An Eye For an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind by Allen Cohen and Clive Matson.
2. Poetry After 9/11; An Anthology of New York Poets by Denis Loy Johnson and Valerie…[Read more]

I’m very interested, especially as US poetry in the second half of the past century seemed concerned with the private and now, with the provocations of 9/11 and Claudia Rankine, poets are being urged to become more public.

John Streamas

But this I suppose isn’t a case of English pilfering the coffers of other languages, but rather its own, it seems.

…language and culture.  The things they do to each other!

@katinalynn  – Hi Katrina – yes, the reason I brought this up, actually is I’m new to the MLA, and while scrolling through the Commons earlier this week, I had a double-take moment & actually took a screen shot of the group name in preparation for a social media post along the lines of “My god!  They’ve infiltrated the MLA!”  That fear of co…[Read more]

Merging this group with Connected Academics would make sense.

As for the alt-ac term, I found it rather confusing even before the resent resurgence of the alt-right. Para-academic seems more accurate and sounds kind of badass.

Hi Samara, this has been on my mind, too. I edit #Alt-Academy and have felt some concern about how the term may be read in the current political climate. While Brian is right about the history, I think the term has outlived much of its original usefulness and tends to provoke a somewhat negative reaction in people now. In my own work, I favor…[Read more]

We’ve tried to avoid using “alt-academic” and “alt-ac” in Connected Academics discussions, focusing instead on humanities careers. If this group is interested in moving discussion over to the Connected Academics group, or alternatively over to the broader Humanities Commons platform (in order to engage with non-members and humanities practitioners…[Read more]