August 14, 2020
(Director’s note: Walt Hunter, author of Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization (Fordham UP, 2019) and co-translator, with Lindsay Turner, of Frédéric Neyrat’s Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism (Fordham UP, 2017), is an associate professor of World Literature and associate chair of Clemson English. Current events have him thinking about this moment in […]
August 5, 2020
Directors note: A few years ago, Clemson English MA alum Ron Rash generously spoke at a celebration for the 50th anniversary of the Clemson MA in English program. I remember him saying something about how when he was a graduate student at Clemson, “people thought we were part of a cult, because we were always carrying […]
August 3, 2020
(Director’s note: Maria Bose is assistant professor of media and cultural studies in the Clemson English department. Her current project is “Cinema’s Hegemony,” a cultural-materialist account of cinema’s primacy to an unfolding phase of Asia-led global political economy.) Midway through Age of Extinction (Paramount, 2014), Michael Bay’s fourth installment for the Transformers franchise’s live-action film […]