The talk below was originally scheduled to be given as a lightning talk at DH2020. We have adapted it here for the new virtual conference. You can follow along with our slides here. For a discipline committed to rejecting reductionism,
Writing about Epidemic
This project started life as a “what to do while we’re all stuck inside” activity—starting a project on writing and disease seemed like it would be a useful way of channeling our restlessness into something productive. This isn’t a “coronavirus”
Star Texts: A Case Study in Harper’s and Vogue
In an early scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a casting agent warns the former star of a hit TV western against the kind of cameo roles he’s been taking since his show was canceled. Short