Author Archives: Jade Tulk

(1.) Antoinette On days it rains I hear the roof cry out; is there another woman living up against the leaking silver sky? Safe from his voice, her subduing hands, and safe from bed’s depths, walls’ ends, this room is a country but above it is surely another. I would pierce the ceiling if IContinue reading “Three Sonnets inspired by Brontë’s Jane Eyre”

Recent student protests against the war in Gaza at campuses all across America have been subjected to repeated acts of police violence and aggression. These protests, despite being portrayed as violent and dangerous by college administrators, the media and even the President of the United States, have been overwhelmingly peaceful. But the repeated police violenceContinue reading “Affective Economies and the Violent Response to Student Protests”

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel is many things: a cautionary tale, a harsh critique of scientific progress at any cost, and also in many ways a feminist text, presenting the alarming consequences of what happens when men intoxicated by their own power attempt to play God. In the following essay I will attempt to interpret FrankensteinContinue reading “A Feminist, Assemblage Theory Reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”

In modern British literature (which I am loosely defining as the period between 17th-20th centuries) and the culture from which that literature emerged, “madness” was a condemning and powerful word, but also a generic word that could mean many things. To call someone “mad” was for the most part an act of dehumanization. People whoContinue reading ““Madness” and Neurodivergence in Modern British Literature”