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Why I Started Using Christian Fascism Instead of Christian Nationalism

During graduate school, Chris Hedges took ethics classes with James Luther Adams, an American theologian who spent time in Germany during…

Sep 1, 2022

Why I Started Using Christian Fascism Instead of Christian Nationalism

Sep 1, 2022

The Death of the Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter With the Enemy”

Last post, I looked at the ways that Flannery O’Connor confronts the Lost Cause Narrative in “A Late Encounter With the Enemy.” Today, I…

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The Death of the Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter With the Enemy”

2d ago

The Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter with the Enemy”

When I started thinking about my American literary survey course this semester, I knew I wanted to have a story by Flannery O’Connor…

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The Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter with the Enemy”

5d ago

The Role of the Artist in Interesting Times: A Look at Albert Camus’s “Creating Dangerously”

Almost two years ago to the day, I finally read Albert Camus’ The Stranger. I had come across, somewhere, a discussion of the novel’s…

Nov 5

The Role of the Artist in Interesting Times: A Look at Albert Camus’s “Creating Dangerously”

Nov 5

Ágota Kristóf’s “The Illiterate” and the Loss of One’s Self

A few days ago, as I am wont to do on occasion, I walked through the stacks at my local library, immediately making a line towards the…

Nov 2

Ágota Kristóf’s “The Illiterate” and the Loss of One’s Self

Nov 2

“Is it a racist story?” Nate Powell’s “Cakewalk”

When I teach first year composition, I usually frame the course around personal narratives, allowing students to write about themselves. I…

Oct 29

“Is it a racist story?” Nate Powell’s “Cakewalk”

Oct 29

The Political Power of Punk: Dead Kennedys’ “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables”

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reading some books from the 33 1/3 series, specifically Nick Attfield’s on Dinosaur Jr.’s 1987…

Oct 26

The Political Power of Punk: Dead Kennedys’ “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables”

Oct 26

Fears of Invasion in Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefengki’s “The Good Asian”

Last post, I looked at the first few pages of Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefengki’s The Good Asian, specifically the ways that the…

Oct 22

Fears of Invasion in Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefengki’s “The Good Asian”

Oct 22

The Walls That Separate Us in Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefengki’s “The Good Asian”

I first read Pornsak Pichetshote and Aaron Campbell’s Infidel about five years ago, and after reading it, I decided to teach it in my…

Oct 19

The Walls That Separate Us in Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefengki’s “The Good Asian”

Oct 19

The Importance of Art as Resistance and Exis

A few weeks ago, someone told me about the work of neurologist and psychologist Viktor Frankl and his time in a concentration camp duroing…

Oct 15

The Importance of Art as Resistance and Exis

Oct 15

Matthew Teutsch

Matthew Teutsch

Here, you will find reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy.

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