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“Small Officiousnesses”: Minorness and Intimacy in Early Modern English Literature
My dissertation establishes minor poetics as a valuable and purposefully porous category for analysis. My fine-grained readings of Dorothy Osborne, Aemilia Lanyer, John Donne, Katherine Philips, William Shakespeare, and John Milton challenge critical tendencies to conflate minorness with the one-dimensionality of privation. Rather than indexing alienation—as modes of social minority do—these authors’ craftsmanlike attention to »
Arya Sureshbabu
English
UC Berkeley
Oversharing in the Academic Borderlands
Sammy Solis (Work & Refuge 1/7) reflects on scholarly writing as a personal and political act.
Sounding Graduate Student Work
Rosie Dwyer (Work & Refuge 2/7) explores the sonic dimensions of graduate student labor.
The University’s Two Bodies: Crip Labors of, and Beyond, Survival
Andrew David King (Work & Refuge 3/7) on the “crip labors” of disabled students and faculty.
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UCHRI Director Position Now Open for Recruitment
Open date: March 7, 2025 Next review date: Monday, Apr 7, 2025 Final date: Monday, Jun 30, 2025 The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), established in 1987, facilitates innovative interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities through competitive grants and fellowships, collaborative research partnerships, conferences and workshops, and multi-campus initiatives across the UC system, nationally, »
LARB Publishing Workshop Expands Career Opportunities for UC Graduate Students
By Victoria Le, UCHRI Undergraduate Intern Writer and aspiring publisher Arielle Burgdorf said they feared their chances of working in publishing would be slim, and found the conversations surrounding the job market to be “depressing.” So Burgdorf, a PhD candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, turned to the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing »
UCHRI Welcomes Brittany Turner, Graduate Student Researcher
I am a second-year PhD student in Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine with interests in global anti-colonial cinemas, Black visual cultures and counter-publics, and community-based creative labor. My research traces a genealogy of militant, participatory filmmaking practice to consider the aims and anti-colonial and postcolonial preoccupations of contemporary filmmakers in the Global South. »
