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Sprockets and Springes

The web presence of Nic Helms (they/them).

  • About Nic Helms
    • Publications
      • Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare’s Characters
    • Projects
      • Voxology
      • Improbable Fictions
        • Aesthetic
        • Origins
        • Shakes Scripts
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  • Sprockets and Springes
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    • Audio
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    • Plymouth State University
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  • Courses
    • Syllabi
      • EN 1400: Composition, Writing About Disability
      • EN 1600: Studies in English
      • EN 2490: Rethinking Modern British Literature, 1660-1945
      • EN 3430/5: Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Literature
      • EN 3515: Currents in Global Literature
      • EN 3060: Practicum in the Humanities
      • EN 3695: Critical Theory
      • IS 4220: Rethinking Disability
    • Schedules
      • Schedule, Composition
      • Schedule, Critical Theory
      • Schedule, Global Literature
      • Schedule, Medieval and Renaissance Literature
      • Schedule, Modern British Literature
      • Schedule, Practicum in the Humanities
      • Schedule, Rethinking Disability
      • Schedule, Studies in English
    • Course Structures
      • Accessibility and Disability
      • Assignments
        • Archived Projects
      • Attendance
      • Diversity and Inclusion
      • Land Acknowledgement
      • Ungrading
  • Student Work
    • Rethinking the Rural

Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Othello [CN: alcoholism, gaslighting, graphic sexual language, misogyny, murder, racism, suicide]

The Public Theatre NY, “#ToBeBlack“

A Bit Lit Podcast #46, “Ambereen Dadabhoy on early modern race and the English playhouse“

Leo Africanus overview [CN: colonization, racism]

Brandi K. Adams’s “The King, and not I: Refusing neutrality —“

Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast #54, “Keith Hamilton Cobb’s American Moor.” [CN: racial trauma, racism]

Recent Posts

  • The Construction of Gender in Middleton and Deckers The Roaring Girl 
  • Seeking the Unknown
  • Comparing Apples and Oranges: A Comparative Analysis of “A Clockwork Orange” and “Paradise Lost”
  • Medieval Second project
  • Does This Cross Stitch Look Realistic?
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