home cooked theory

Remembering Eve

In honour of our Sedgwick event today, here’s a link to an old essay I wrote a few years ago when I was asked to review Touching Feeling. It’s called “How to Avoid Being Paranoid” and it’s this general directive and its ongoing relevance for those working in the corporate academy that will form the [...]

Literature

Yesterday I had lunch with Catherine Driscoll who was here in New York for a conference. She’s a visiting fellow at Duke and Princeton this semester, and we were chatting a bit about the differences in disciplinarity, Theory and I guess grad student attitood in the various locations we’re familiar with. (Disclosure: I’m part way [...]