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10John Gillingham, William II: The Red King. London: Allen Lane, 2015. Pp. x, 117; 14 color plates, 1 map, and 1 genealogical table. £10.99. ISBN: 978-0-141-97855-0 (review)Speculum 92 (1): 250-252. 2017.
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85Exposing an “Intangible” Cognitive Skill among Collegiate Football Players: Enhanced Interference ControlFrontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.
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9Entanglement in fir : thinking matter in Peter Larkin’s “praying // firs \\ attenuate”Religions 9 (1). 2017.This article reads Peter Larkin’s poem “praying // firs \\ attenuate” as a way to think the divine in relation to the ecological as a mutual poetic giving. It suggests that the poem entangles the reader in a series of relational imaginings that complicates the modern commodification of the nonhuman and questions a secular fatigue with the divine. Through a Catholic metaphysics in which all things—human, nonhuman, holy—are entangled, Larkin’s religious ecology maps the way to horizons promising t…Read more
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6Preface to The year's work in critical and cultural theoryThe Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 25 (1): 3-4. 2017.The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory is a companion to The Year’s Work in English Studies, and like that journal, it provides a narrative bibliography of books and articles published in the field. The origins of YWCCT lie in the introduction of a separate chapter devoted to literary theory in volume 62 of YWES in 1981. The growth of critical and cultural theory led to the appearance of YWCCT as a distinct entity thirteen years later.
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5This discussion locates the doctrine of grace as one way of negotiating Barthes’ references to Christianity in his late writings. The dynamic influence of the divine experienced by the believer through faith, grace has the capacity to transform suffering into a meditative or ‘neutral’ thinking analogous to meditation or prayer. For the grieving Barthes, grace promises relief without negating the course of bereavement and so enables the act of writing. In recalling the maternal, grace also allows…Read more
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