PinnedMatthew TeutschWhy I Started Using Christian Fascism Instead of Christian NationalismDuring graduate school, Chris Hedges took ethics classes with James Luther Adams, an American theologian who spent time in Germany during…Sep 1, 202213Sep 1, 202213
Matthew TeutschEveryday Existence in Anna Seghers’In preparation for my Black Expatriate Writers in France class last spring, I read Nicolas Hewitt’s Wicked City: The Many Cultures of…2d ago2d ago
Matthew TeutschThe Roots and Soot of Time inTanja Maljartschuk’s “ForgottennessIn the previous post, I started examining some of the themes in Tanja Maljartschuk’s Forgottenness. Today, I want to continue that…6d ago6d ago
Matthew TeutschTime and Memory in Tanja Maljartschuk’s “Forgottenness”Over the past few months, I have read a lot of Eastern European authors, specifically from Hungary, Poland, and Ukraine. I started with…Jun 20Jun 20
Matthew TeutschThe Reverberations of World War II SyllabusSince childhood, I’d been fed the constant patriotic narrative of World War II, imbibing the events in which the United States had direct…Jun 141Jun 141
Matthew TeutschThe Juxtaposition of Memory in Public SpaceOn a recent trip, I stopped for coffee in Monticello, Georgia, a small town with a population of around 2,500 about 60 miles southeast of…Jun 12Jun 12
Matthew TeutschWe Must Critically Engage With the Past or We Are Doomed to Repeat ItIn order to understand the present and prepare for the future, we must understand the past and the ways that the past impact the present…Jun 91Jun 91
Matthew TeutschThe Myth of Opportunity in History TeThe myth of opportunity in America runs deep, so deep in fact you’d be forgiven if you thought it appeared as the American Dream in the…Jun 5Jun 5
Matthew TeutschCatharine Maria Sedgwick’s “A Slave Story I Began and Abandoned”: Abolitionist Debates During the…My dissertation, “We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause”: Rhetorical Links Between Native Americans and Africans Americans during the 1820s and…Jun 2Jun 2
Matthew TeutschRace in Judy Blume’s “Wifey”: Part IILast post, I started looking at race in Judy Blume’s Wifey. Today, I want to continue that exploration by looking at the ways that…May 31May 31