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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
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Transition and Transformation: South Africa Yesterday and Today
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Video: Rushdie Describes Magical Realism
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Sad Headline about Marquez
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Hypertext Version of “Garden of Forking Paths”
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Hypertext’s Failure to Launch
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Literary Present Tense