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November 20, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1

IN FLIGHT: Don DeLillo’s The Silence

by HENRY VEGGIAN As hard as it may be to do, try to ignore the warning. That’s what I tell myself, but it’s still there, on the inside flap of the dust jacket. It has the tone of a press release, but it sounds more like the car horn you… read more

ABOUT HENRY VEGGIAN
Henry Veggian teaches in the Department of English at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Understanding Don DeLillo (2014).

November 19, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + Teaching

75 YEARS HENCE: Arthur Miller adapts Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for radio

by JANINE BARCHAS This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? On the 18th of November in 1945, Arthur Miller’s radio adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice could be heard nationwide as part of a special Thanksgiving program. Listeners in New York heard it at 10 p.m.… read more

JANINE BARCHAS
Janine Barchas is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Lost Books of Jane Austen, which led to an exhibition entitled “Austen in Austin” at the Ransom Center in the fall of 2019. She has also contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Lit Hub.

November 18, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts

Carmen is everywhere: opera, diaspora, and interdisciplinary inquiry

by JENNIFER M. WILKS This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? My latest fascination with Carmen began 14 years ago, when I was spending a semester in Paris on a faculty exchange. The night before leaving for spring break, I went to see Mark Dornford-May’s 2005… read more

ABOUT JENNIFER M. WILKS

Jennifer M. Wilks is an associate professor of English, African and African Diaspora Studies, and comparative literature at The University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. Her cultural history of Carmen adaptations set in African diasporic contexts is under contract with Oxford University Press.