I was reading “Hills Like White Elephants” again (I say again because I read it in high school and maybe one other time since) and this time I was struck with the meaning moreso than before. So I might try to give a little explanation of what I think “Hills…

Reading all the different pieces to “Robots Reading Vogue,” I was impressed by how many tools there were at the digital humanists disposal. Every new piece we read had at least one new tool for looking at and ordering data in large chunks. It made it really easy to see…

I thought seeing Kevin L. Ferguson’s digitally surreal images of movies was very intriguing.  I don’t think I knew that looking at a movie in such a way would produce anything but noise. I was surprised to see (after he pointed it out. I couldn’t tell before he talked about…

Reading Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife has got me thinking about historic women, particularly Medusa. I heard somewhere (that is not a very reliable source I know) that the story of Medusa is actually a story ancient Greek women would look to for empowerment. In the original tale, Poseidon…

In Franco Moretti’s “Abstract Models for Literary History – 1,” he wonders why novel genres seem to appear and disappear almost all at once, usually during a space of 25-30 years. Before he even made the connection to generations, I was yelling that word from the sidelines. However, he quickly…

Elizabeth is kind of the perfect example of a teenage daughter portrayed in media. She’s beautiful, doesn’t talk much to people she doesn’t know or like, and she defies her mother and the conventions of her family. Elizabeth takes that bus ride down the Strand ind defiance to all her…

I think “Sexy” by Jhumpa Lahiri is one big portrait of Loneliness. Throughout the piece we follow Miranda through her lonely life as a cubicle worker in a somewhat new city. Her only friend at the beginning appears to be Laxmi, who seems to be the kind of person who talks but never listens, so […]