Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association The (Re)production of Misery and the Ways of Resistance October 8-11, 2015 Toronto, Canada 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm Panel 094. States of Injury Sheraton Centre, Forest Hill Chair: Amy Farrell, Dickinson College Papers: J.C. Sibara, Colby College (ME) Bare Life? Slow Death? Premature Disability? Theorizing Imperial Injury…Read more Blood Writ: Tissue Economies and the Misery of Parasitic in Sherman Alexie’s “The Sin Eaters.”
Taking Cover
You see the shield with the star and stripes You find comfort in the impenetrable fiction. You wish you had a wall between You and them, you and it, you and him. Lay down not just your sword, The words you brandish, The tweets you send, The silent, desperate betrayals. Lay down your…Read more Taking Cover
Doctor Who? Unsettling William Wells Brown, M.D.
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Fourth Biennial Conference Penn State University, March 17-20, 2016 Panel 79. Racial Diagnosis: Disease, Regulation, Remedy Chair: Julia Rosenbloom, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Don James McLaughlin, University of Pennsylvania, “Diagnosing Dread: Rabies, Phobia, and Blackness in Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe” Robert Gunn, University of Texas at…Read more Doctor Who? Unsettling William Wells Brown, M.D.
Seven Councils Fire
The feather and the riot helmet, Water and steel, water poisoned It makes you sick, makes your eyes burn. It comes from a can, could come from the river. They prohibited the potlach and the Sun Dance. At Standing Rock, people share, and people dance. They never left, never went, never died, Never will.…Read more Seven Councils Fire
Dr. Sören Fröhlich
Native German, German M.A. in American Studies, Ph.D. in Literatures in English ( UCSD, focus on long nineteenth-century U.S. literature). I focus on all things blood, especially the overlap of social, cultural, and medical interpretations of blood over time, bridging metaphorical and material, poetic and phenomenological, political and prosaic understandings of blood. I draw on…Read more Dr. Sören Fröhlich
Dr. Sören Fröhlich 