Genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy to describe the New World.
Project New Media Literacies: Moby-Dick and Reading in a Participatory Culture
MIT’s Project New Media Literacies is helping teachers in New England use Moby-Dick as a model to show teens how they might create and circulate media.
Podcast: “Slightly More Than Expected from a Band of Novelists: On How and Why a Group of Writers Called Wu Ming Set to Disrupt Italian (nay, European) Literature and Popular Culture (and then Came to Boston to Brag About It)”
Wu Ming 1 is a founding member and representative of the Wu Ming Foundation, a collective of writers from Italy.
A Ceaseless Becoming: Narratives of Adolescence Across Media
The broad appeal of narratives with adolescent protagonists across a variety of media, including literature, film, and video games.
Comics Creator Frank Espinosa Gets Graphic
Frank Espinosa, the creator of the critically acclaimed comic book series Rocketo, and a visiting artist at MIT discussed his work.
Web of Words: Poetry, Fandom and Globality
Media change, negotiation of literary value and postcolonial hybridity through a study of The Wondering Minstrels, a largely South-Asian community on the Web dedicated to the celebration of English poetry.
The Book as Looking Glass: Improving Works for and about Children in Early Modern England
Exploring three developments pertaining to children and reading in seventeenth-century England, including how profoundly death was implicated in the development of thought about children’s reading.
