The Education of Oronte Churm

A film corollary to my last post, about bad books: The media always reports on how emotionally hard the holidays...

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And great good luck to all our friends looking for jobs on the academic market this year.

Yesterday I went to the session on Literary Studies in the Public Sphere. For two of the speakers, Amardeep Singh...

Thanks to loyal readers who suggested things to do in Philadelphia while I’m here at the Modern Language Association Conference...

My name is Oronte Churm, and I teach at a large state university. Over the last year, I’ve written about...