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 […]
July 1, 2020
(Director’s note: Salvador Oropesa, Chair of Languages, earned a PhD in Latin American literature from Arizona State, was born in Málaga, Spain, and studied Spanish Philology at the Universidad de Granada, Spain. This is Clemson Humanities Now.) At this age of wisdom and foolishness, the pandemic arrived with the new year. The citizens of the […]
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 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 […]
