January 9, 2021
Anonymous White House insider reports claim that Donald Trump is behaving like “Mad King George.” In private, maybe he is; in public, though, on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, he acted like Charles the First. Less familiar to Americans today, Charles’s actions in 1640s England inform the eighteenth-century Constitution of the United States. Infuriated by Puritans […]
January 7, 2021
[Author’s note: Lee Morrissey, Founding Director of the Humanities Hub, and English Professor at Clemson, on media, civil war, and democracy in seventeenth-century England, and early 2021. This is Clemson Humanities Now.] In 1995, when I was still a graduate student, I was lucky enough to get a job as an assistant professor of English, […]
September 14, 2020
Kapreece Dorrah, a Junior English Major English from Greenville, South Carolina, is a member of the We CU Video Campaign ), for which he made this video poem. This is Clemson Humanities Now.
September 2, 2020
(Director’s note: Gabriel Hankins teaches English literature and digital humanities in the Department of English at Clemson University. His research interests include modernism, and digital literary studies. His book, Interwar Modernism and Liberal World Order, has been published by Cambridge University Press. He is co-editor of a new series on Digital Literary Studies, also published by […]
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 […]
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 […]
