Figure 1. Holland House Library, London (September, 1940)
[Reverse Image: "The Tower of Babel" by Pieter Brugel, c. 1563]
When a contradiction is
impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
(Simone Weil, 1909-1943)
in my virtual, traveling office; email me: eileenajoy@gmail.com
ENG111 Introduction to Literature: Beholding Violence in Drama and Film (ONLINE)
ENG200 Introduction to Literary Study
ENG214 Topics in World Literature: War and Heroism
ENG404 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
ENG421 Poetry & Prose of the Medieval Period: The Arthurian Remix
ENG441B Contemporary American Literature, Fiction: Fantastic/Slipstream/Realism
ENG480 Major Authors: Crossing Boundaries: Mise-en-Abyme in Boccaccio, Chaucer, Borges, and Auster
ENG 496: Open-Access Para-Academic Publishing Lab
ENG497a Senior Seminar: Bodies-Becoming and Identity Machines: Post/human Literatures
ENG502 Modern Literary Theory: Objects, Actants, Networks
ENG505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Beowulf, Cultural Memory, and War
ENG505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Masculinity, Violence, & the Medieval Romance
ENG505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: The Post/human Middle Ages
ENG505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Writing, Race, and the English Nation
ENG505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Medieval Sex
ENG505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Medieval Supernatural
IS399 [Interdisciplinary Studies] Lord of the Rings and Medieval Heroic Poetry
Figure 2. Grozny City Center, Chechyna (March 1995)
Figure 3. Unmarked Kosovar Albanian Graves in Djakovica (1999)
Scholarly Desiring-Assemblage
Journal
Press
punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
Weblogs (Principal Author)
The International Society of Fools
Facebook Essential
Favorite Websites + Personal Concerns
Figure 4. 25-year-old Kamajor Fighter, Sierre Leone (2000)
(written in nail polish on the butt of his gun: war is my food)
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
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Figure 6. Personal Effects of Kosovar Victims, Meja (1999)
Sean Kernan's "The Secret Books"
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Peter Turnley's "The Unseen Gulf War"
Thinking God: A Bilingual Simone Weil Reader
We Feel Fine & Universe (web-artworks by Jonthan Harris)
The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate
Figure 7. Chechen Man at Samaski Mental Hospital (Grozny, 2002)
Figure 8. Gardens of Babur Shah, Kabul (2003)
Figure 9. Dead Chechen Woman Suicide Bomber
Figure 10. Boy Soldiers in Bunia, Congo (June 2003)
Figure 11. Russians checking list of victims of subway bombing (February 2004)
Figure 12. Sudanese refugees fleeing Darfur (April 2004)
Figure 13. Girl, aged 9, burned in Gujarat massacre (India, 2002)
Figure 14. Uganda's "Night Commuters" (June 2005)
Figure 16. Paul Auster in Central Park (my favorite contemporary author)
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