June 26, 2020
(Director’s note: Cynthia Haynes is Director of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design Ph.D program and Professor of English. Her research interests are rhetoric, composition, multimodal pedagogy, virtual worlds, critical theory, computer games studies, and the rhetoric of war and terrorism. Her recent book, The Homesick Phone Book: Addressing Rhetoric in the Age of Perpetual Conflict won the 2017 […]
June 24, 2020
(Director’s note: Brookes Brown, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Law, Liberty and Justice, writes on civic obligation, corporate ethics, and is beginning a book project on the ethics of loneliness. This is Clemson Humanities Now.) Like many of you, I have not interacted socially in person with anybody outside of […]
June 22, 2020
(Director’s Note: Todd May teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. This is Clemson Humanities Now.) “the prison, apparently ‘failing’, does not miss its target; on the contrary, it reaches it, in so far as it gives rise to one particular form of illegality in the midst of others, which it is able to […]
June 19, 2020
(Director’s note: It’s just one week ago today that the Clemson University Board of Trustees voted to un-name the University’s Honors College. To help contextualize and better understand the complicated legacy of John C. Calhoun, I invited Susanna Ashton, Chair of the Clemson Department of English who specializes in the literature and history of nineteenth century […]
June 17, 2020
(Director’s note: Orville Vernon Burton is the inaugural Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History and Professor of Pan-African Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, and Computer Science at Clemson University, and the Director of the Clemson CyberInstitute. A recognized expert on race relations and the American South, and a leader in Digital Humanities, Burton served […]
June 12, 2020
(Director’s note: Lee B. Wilson, an Assistant Professor in the Clemson University Department of History, specializes in colonial British America and the early modern Atlantic world. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. Her book, Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law […]
June 10, 2020
(Director’s note: Joseph Mai, Associate Professor of French, with an affiliation in World Cinema, team teaches with Angela Naimou, Associate Professor of English, a Creative Inquiry group,“Stories of Refuge, Detention, and Hospitality,” dedicated to understanding the stories of immigrants, the conditions of detention, and creative practices of hospitality. This is Clemson Humanities Now.) If you are […]
June 8, 2020
(Introduction to a series, “Clemson Humanities Now,” by Humanities Hub Founding Director, Lee Morrissey, who teaches in the English Department.) By April 2020, as the nation went into the Covid-19 lockdown, I was dismayed: a devastating and mysterious illness was painfully debilitating its sufferers, and even, apparently, presenting a new way of dying—suddenly, from a […]
