a bit about samuel delany?
https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/delany42interview.htm
**note the usage of term:
codic conventions
@willianbusch You probably can find the clues you need in James Turner's "Philology: the Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities" and Chapter 1 of Peter Berry's "Beginning Theory, 2nd Ed" (which opens with a history of English studies in the UK & US), amongst other sources, but those two come to mind for me....
Masto meta; instance referral
To those who need a new home, https://scholar.social is open to new registrations
Focus is on academics, with monthly optional journal club
Queer-friendly, open to scholars at any level
Read the instance about page and decide if you want to join us
Mathematician Marie-Sophie Germain, who established foundational results in the study of both Fermat’s Last Theorem and the theory of elasticity, and was the first woman to win the Prix Extraordinaire of the Paris Academy of Sciences, was born #OTD in 1776.
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I never actually liked the lightsaber battle between Obi Wan Kenobi and Lord Vader at the Death Star. This version is way more interesting. https://scholar.social/media/ShCzyeMnB4TyMwtk6H4
Journal club
I have randomly selected one article from among those suggested by users of https://scholar.social this month
We will be reading: "Hegemonic Heteronormativity: Toward a New Era of Queer Family Theory" by Allen and Mendez
https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12241
The submitter is welcome to de-anonymise themself and introduce the paper and why it was suggested—or not!
Try to keep #journalclub to a single thread by replying to this post to add your thoughts
Have a read and a think and jump in :)
Your entire life, you've been told you're deathly allergic to bees. You've always had people protecting you from them, be it your mother or a hired hand. Today, one slips through and lands on your shoulder. You hear a tiny voice say "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"
#writingprompts #writing
#introductions I'm a PhD candidate in History at Federal University of Paraná (Brazil). My research topic is the emergence and legitimacy of science fiction studies in the US (1970-1980). I have a MA in Anthropology and a BA in Philosophy.
PhD Candidate in History. MA in Anthropology. BA in Philosophy.