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 TeutschThe Narcissism of White SupremacyEvery time I listen to Propaganda and Sho Baraka’s “Cynical,” new lines stick out to me. A lot of times, the first few lines of Sho…1d ago1d ago
Matthew TeutschJim Crow and the Holocaust in Comics CFPIn the midst of Russia invading Ukraine, I planned a study travel trip to Poland focused on the intersections between Jim Crow and the…4d ago4d ago
Matthew TeutschThe Transmission of Hate in Anna Segher’s “The Seventh Cross”While the normality of life amidst the tyranny of fascism caught my attention in Anna Seghers’ novels, I also noticed how Seghers, in The…6d ago6d ago
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…Jun 27Jun 27
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…Jun 23Jun 23
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