July 31, 2020
(Director’s note: David Sweeney Coombs is associate professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Clemson English Department. He is the author of Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science, published in 2019 by University of Virginia Press. This is Clemson Humanities Now.) “A dreadful Plague in London was, In the Year Sixty Five […]
July 24, 2020
(Director’s note: In the summer of 2008, I had just arrived at my destination in Istanbul, connected to wifi, checked my email, and saw that I had a received a message from Will Cathcart, Clemson English, Class of 2005. In it, Will rightly predicted that Russia was about to invade the country of Georgia, and […]
July 22, 2020
(Director’s note: Johannes Schmidt teaches German in the Clemson Languages Department, where he will offer a course on “Tolerance in the Eighteenth Century” (in German) in the fall of 2020 and on Hanna Arendt and Totalitarianism (in English) in the spring of 2021. This is Clemson Humanities Now.) On November 1, 1755, an earthquake off […]
July 20, 2020
(Director’s Note: Seeing Covid-19 hit Italy early, and hard, I wrote to a colleague in the Department of Languages, Roberto Risso, for his sense of the situation, below. Dr. Risso was born and raised in Turin, Italy, where he lived until eleven years ago. After relocating to the US, he has lived in Wisconsin, Maine, and […]
July 17, 2020
(Director’s Note: Lee Morrissey, Founding Director of the Humanities Hub, joined the Clemson English faculty in 1995, moving to Clemson from Manhattan, where, while a graduate student, he had volunteered to create the Archives at an arts center, The Kitchen. From 1995 to 2000, he brought artists–including Ben Neill (who performed with David Wojnarowicz in […]
July 15, 2020
(Director’s note: Dr. Abel A. Bartley, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and a graduate of Florida State University where he received his BA in History and Political Science, his MA in History, and his Ph.D. in History in African Americans and Urban History, is Professor of African American and Urban History at Clemson. Author of Keeping the Faith: […]
July 13, 2020
(Director’s note: Elizabeth Rivlin, teaches in the English department, and her research interests include the history of Shakespeare in American literature and culture, especially cultures of reading; theories of adaptation; and early modern drama and prose. Her current book project is titled Shakespeare and the American Middlebrow, for which she won a NEH Summer Stipend. This is […]
July 10, 2020
(Director’s note: Jordan Frith, Pearce Professor of Professional Communication in English, researches mobile technologies, social media, and infrastructure, particularly where those topics intersect through questions of space and place. He’s the author of 30 peer-reviewed articles on these topics and three books, the most recent of which was published by MIT Press in 2019. This is […]
July 8, 2020
(Director’s note: Pauline de Tholozany, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages department, specializes in 19th-century French Literature. Her first book, L’Ecole de la maladresse (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2017), is a history of clumsiness in the 18th and 19th centuries. She is now working on a second book that focuses on impatience, a feeling that we tend to decry; […]
July 6, 2020
(Director’s Note: Stephanie Barczewski is Professor of History and Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities. She is a specialist in the history of modern Britain. Her most recent book is Heroic Failure and the British (2016); her next book, Englishness and the Country House, is forthcoming from Reaktion Books in 2021. The title of her essay comes […]
