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Read About: Authenticity

Read About: Authenticity

Read About: Authenticity BY SKYE C. CLEARY Authenticity has become a buzzword, especially in popular psychology and leadership realms. Usually authenticity is understood as ‘being yourself’.  But what does it mean to ‘be yourself’? Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection

Skye Cleary July 14, 2022June 28, 2022 Blog, Read About No Comments Read more

Read About: J.R.R. Tolkien 

Read About: J.R.R. Tolkien 

Read About: J.R.R. Tolkien  DR ANDREW HIGGINS Who Was J.R.R. Tolkien?  J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) is considered the father of modern fantasy literature.  Tolkien spent a great part of his life constructing a vast fictional world in which he set his

Andrew Higgins April 13, 2022April 7, 2022 Blog, Read About No Comments Read more

Review of Rescuing Socrates

Review of Rescuing Socrates

Review of Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montás FINNIAN MURPHY In his deeply personal and passionate book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed my Life and Why they Matter for a New Generation, Roosevelt Montás details his personal and professional

Finnian Murphy March 29, 2022March 29, 2022 Academic, Blog, Reviews No Comments Read more

Academics in Fiction: Colonialism, Exoticism and Lovecraft’s Professors

Academics in Fiction: Colonialism, Exoticism and Lovecraft’s Professors

Academics in Fiction: Colonialism, Exoticism and Lovecraft’s Professors TIM MOORSOM Few horror writers have had such a profound effect on culture as H. P. Lovecraft. While Stephen King or George R. R. Martin are better known, Lovecraft’s fingerprints, or perhaps

Tim Moorsom March 25, 2022March 23, 2022 Academics in Fiction, Blog, Featured, Snaps No Comments Read more

Academic Book Reviews Deserve Some Respect

Academic Book Reviews Deserve Some Respect

Academic Book Reviews Deserve Some Respect VICTORIA ADDIS The academic book review has long had a status issue. With the advent in the U.K., of the Research Excellence Framework, a process of research assessment that has inevitably reshaped ideas of what

Victoria Addis March 23, 2022March 23, 2022 Blog, Snaps No Comments Read more

Review of Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore by Lawrence Millman

Review of Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore by Lawrence Millman

Review of Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore by Lawrence Millman DAPHNE NG We often think of mushrooms as delectable treats sautéed in butter and garlic but did you know that they also play prominent roles in popular culture?

Daphne Ng March 10, 2022March 15, 2022 Academic, Blog, Reviews No Comments Read more

Academics in Fiction: Hedda Gabler

Academics in Fiction: Hedda Gabler

Academics in Fiction: Hedda Gabler VICTORIA ADDIS Henrick Ibsen’s 1890 play, Hedda Gabler (first performed in Munich in 1891), provides us with not one but with two academic characters: the new husband of the eponymous Hedda Gabler, George Tesman, and

Victoria Addis March 9, 2022March 11, 2022 Academics in Fiction, Blog, Featured, Snaps No Comments Read more

Review of City Living: How Urban Dwellers and Urban Spaces Make One Another by Quill R Kukla

Review of City Living: How Urban Dwellers and Urban Spaces Make One Another by Quill R Kukla

Review of City Living: How Urban Dwellers and Urban Spaces Make One Another by Quill R Kukla JAG WILLIAMS In their book City Living, philosopher and geographer Quill Kukla brings together a robust interdisciplinary analysis and a deep appreciation of

Jag Williams March 8, 2022February 22, 2022 Academic, Blog, Reviews No Comments Read more

Review of Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories edited by Charlotte Artese

Review of Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories edited by Charlotte Artese

Review of Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories edited by Charlotte Artese BRITTANY ELDRIDGE Folktales have been seen as an inspiration for many modern-day authors and film makers, and the inspiration obtained from these tales can also be

Brittany Eldridge March 7, 2022February 22, 2022 Academic, Blog, Reviews, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Review of Anecdotes of the Enlightenment: Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth

Review of Anecdotes of the Enlightenment: Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth

Review of Anecdotes of the Enlightenment: Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth ROSE HILTON In Anecdotes of Enlightenment, James Robert Wood positions the anecdote as central to Enlightenment explorations of human nature in the various forms and fields of philosophy,

Rose Hilton March 6, 2022February 22, 2022 Academic, Blog, Reviews No Comments Read more
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