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My Talk on Sexual Violence in Victorian Novels
I had the wonderful opportunity late last year to present at a conference in Belfast, Ireland. The Seamus Heaney Centre hosted a conference with the bold title of Creating a World without Violence against Women and Girls: The Role of the Arts. I say “bold” because that is indeed a bold vision: a world without…
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Live from Pemberley Interview

It was so wonderful to talk with Ariana Nedelman and Lauren Sandler this week about fallen women in nineteenth-century fiction. They reached out to me because of research I’ve done and published over the years (including my dissertation, which anyone can read for free here on fallen women and the British Empire) because they wanted…
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Current Read: Beethoven

I’m about halfway through a massive biography of my favorite composer, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (2015) by Jan Swafford, and I’ve found many parts of the book eye opening and inspiring. I began loving Beethoven during my school years as a piano student. It was amazing to me how he could compose pieces so dynamically…
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New Episode of Flash Readings
My interview with Sarah Higinbotham on her new book with Jonathan Todres about children’s rights and children’s literature has just been released. Listen to it here and enjoy her reading and analysis of Dr. Seuss’s story “The Sneetches.”
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Transition and Transformation: South Africa Yesterday and Today
Come to GSU for this special event! It should be a great performance, and it will be wonderful to hear the author speak.
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Video: Rushdie Describes Magical Realism
Charlie Rose – Salman Rushdie on magical realism.
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Sad Headline about Marquez
Gabriel García Márquez’s writing career ended by dementia | Books | The Observer.
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Hypertext Version of “Garden of Forking Paths”
This hypertext of Garden of Forking Paths is a bit dated, but it serves as an example nonetheless.
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Hypertext’s Failure to Launch
Why the book’s future never happened – Salon.com.
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Literary Present Tense
Here’s a sheet from Vanderbilt that does a good job explaining literary present tense and why we use it.