November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsPowerful currents: John Wilson’s Down by the Riverside prints The dark male figure, head bent to the driving rain indicated by the dense lines that cover the page, lifts a slight woman into a simple rowboat. The boat’s bow is pointed through the floodwaters toward higher ground, its port side steadied by a second stooped male.
November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingCentral Texas to west Texas and beyond “What do the books smell like?” asked one of my students. In my Shakespeare class at West Texas A&M University, we must use the internet as our rare book room. Our institution could never afford the kinds of specialized resources we use every week online: my students can easily flip… read more
November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingResearcher publications Ernest Hemingway: A Biography Mary V. Dearborn Knopf, 2017 A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway. Dearborn’s biography gives a rich and nuanced portrait of this complex, enigmatically unique American artist, whose same uncontrollable demons that inspired and drove him throughout his life undid him at… read more
