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COVID & COVID Racism

Masks, social distancing, six/three feet apart, quarantine, and isolating. This is a new life. I would have never thought that the world we would be living in would come down, to wearing a different colored mask every day, quarantining from our families, not standing less than three feet away from someone. I said it’s a new life in the beginning but to be fair it’s not newContinue reading “COVID & COVID Racism”

Written History isn’t Heard.

the voices of survivors are more impactful than the words we use to recite them.

Unessay #1

My unessay is an animated poster that focuses on the idea of the author’s voice, who we hear, and who we listen to. To preface my unessay, I approached it with the belief that hearing and listening are not the same thing. I define hearing as absorbing the words, written or otherwise, of any personContinue reading “Unessay #1”

The Roots of Slavery and Mass Incarceration (Project 1) (Jordan Smith)

Jordan Smith Achebe and the “right of Africans to tell their own story in their own way” inspired me to reconsider themes of the past and how they are still present in twenty-first century. For this project, I created a series of drawings, each representative of the “root” somewhere of slavery. In the first imageContinue reading “The Roots of Slavery and Mass Incarceration (Project 1) (Jordan Smith)”

Disability Justice Design

I’m presenting on Disability Justice Design this week at The University of Alabama’s 2021 Digitorium conference, where I’ll be talking (via Zoom!) about my work on two courses at Plymouth State University: EN 3420, Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Literature, and EN 2490, Rethinking Modern British Literature, 1660-1945. Those courses live here on a WordPress siteContinue reading “Disability Justice Design”

New vs. Old Translation Beowulf (Word Clouds)

Hello and welcome to my first project for fall 2021! For this project, I decided I wanted to look closely at the specific words used in Beowulf and see if there were any big differences in the language with an old versus new translation aside from the “Bro” vs “Lo” that we’ve talked about before.Continue reading “New vs. Old Translation Beowulf (Word Clouds)”

Majority Knows “Best” (Project 1)

Equiano’s “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African” or “Life of Equiano” for short, and Soyinka’s “Death and King’s Horseman” are two books that have very heavy themes of religion and tradition from multiple points of view. What I mean by that is in “Life of Equiano”, EquianoContinue reading “Majority Knows “Best” (Project 1)”

Project #1

Christianity Through Different Times Religions and How they Impacted in Different Readings. With over 2 billion followers, Christianity is the most widely practiced religion in the world. The Christian faith is based on beliefs about Jesus Christ’s birth, life, death, and resurrection. While Christianity began with a small group of followers, many historians considerContinue reading “Project #1”

Loneliness in The Wife’s Lament, The Wanderer, & Beowulf

There are a few obvious themes that are represented in the poems The Wife’s Lament and The Wanderer by Aaron K. Hostetter. The first theme that I noticed was the theme of isolation/loneliness. Isolation is one of the fundamental themes of literature. It’s a state of loneliness in which you can feel cut off andContinue reading “Loneliness in The Wife’s Lament, The Wanderer, & Beowulf”

Beowulf in Three Monologues

For my unessay, I chose to perform three pieces of text from Beowulf as monologues. I also chose to record a video explaining my choices! The link to the youtube playlist is below! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA-taKQCzlRMCIEgvQML6plcrix8ub7dz