I first came across Rare Book School on a humanites research listserv. I clicked through the links, perused the website, and filed the url away in my "So Many Good Opportunities, So Little Time" catalog. Unfortuantely for me, that management system has only grown larger and larger. But that is what makes Off-Script so wonderful. … Continue reading Learn about Rare Book School and more…
An undergraduate student uses social theory to consider why Americans appear more invested in decrying school shootings than ending them.
In this series, "The Textures of Sexuality," we have undergraduate students from two schools considering how the body is implicated in storytelling devices used in popular media. Elizabethtown College student Hannah Ciocco begins with a discussion of Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats' Does God Make the Man: Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity, (New … Continue reading American Masculinity and Media Crisis
Rhetorics of “law and order” have returned with a vengeance in the 2016 US Presidential Debate. Sowing the Seed is going to repost pieces from its Summer 2016 Reading Race and Criminality series in an attempt to deepen the discussion. Emily Soltys builds on Matthew Kuraska’s piece, to look at the role of media and language in discussing the … Continue reading Mediating Perceptions of Race and Criminal Justice in America
Yesterday in my Bible and Race in the United States of America class, I asked students how differently they might read the Bible were it introduced with the following disclaimer:
