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Shimmering Scalarities: Dr. Brian Roberts on Deep Time, Archipelagic Thinking, and Borderwaters

October 4, 2021October 4, 2021

“Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that grey vault. The sea. The sea has locked them up. The sea is History.”[1] In Dr. Brian Russell Roberts’s latest book, Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America, out with Duke University Press in May of this year, he immerses …

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Professor Elliott D. Wise on Affective Piety, Ekphrastic Mysticism, and Dramatic Teaching

September 13, 2021September 13, 2021

Affect, verb: (1) have an effect upon; make a difference to. (2) touch the feelings of (someone); move emotionally. Elliott D. Wise, assistant professor of Art History in the Comparative Arts and Letters department, confesses that he teaches in a rather emotional style—dramatic, even—in part to keep people awake in the dim light of an …

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