@espinoza.bsky.social
Lecturer in English, Postcolonial and Media Studies Uni Muenster. Transnational film/media studies & C19 (popular) fiction, he/him go.wwu.de/espinoza
(Sorry, crammed all info into one post, but Six Acts is just such a stunning piece of art!)
31.01.2025 10:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stunning deconstruction of race, nationalism, and museum culture: Lasana Shabazz's rendition of Camptown Races in front of Alexander von Wagner's 1882 Ben-Hur-inspired "The Chariot Race" at Manchester Art Gallery, a performance that's now part of the same exhibition via Sonia Boyce's "Six Acts"
31.01.2025 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Whohooo, so so so well deserved 🥳
29.01.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0(Also halb so wild, aber erster Elternabend rum und ich bin Kassenprüfer, im Handwerksteam und @leaespinoza.bluesky.social ist für Baumschnitt und Gartenarbeit mit-zuständig … )
05.10.2023 00:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Das muss ich noch lernen … aber congrats!
05.10.2023 00:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Person in the middle-distance sitting in a mid-century auditorium, occupying one of uncountable mint-ish green chairs, all of which are embroidered with “U Lisboa”
A late-50s university building entrance with huge, rectangular columns in the early evening, groups of people sit and stand in front of it.
Guess who’s having the best time teaching and getting some research done at the Universidade de Lisboa before term starts back home? So far it’s been seminars on cultural histories, neo-Victorianism, Stuart Hall, and #UndiscipliningVictorianStudies!
29.09.2023 11:55 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org
25.09.2023 08:12 — 👍 398 🔁 299 💬 3 📌 12Congratulations - this is *so* well deserved! 🥳
22.09.2023 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What will it take for neo-Victorian studies to keep its promise of moving beyond the toxic legacies of its Victorian forebears and enter into meaningful dialogues with disciplines such as Indigenous studies, African studies, Black studies, or postcolonial studies? Could the neo-Victorian even become a field that scholars from these disciplines might choose to engage with to a much larger degree? These disciplines are, after all, acutely aware of how contemporary hegemonies and paradigms relate to a significant degree to the long nineteenth century's colonial exploitations. Just as Victorian studies is tasked with its undisciplining, such an approach to neo-Victorian studies would require critical (self-)assessments of the field's disciplinarity, its structures and epistemologies of exclusion, its methodological and conceptual limitations.Footnote 9 These interventions cannot be made effectively if they come from within the current domains of neo-Victorian scholarship alone.
My short take on current challenges for Neo-Victorian Studies is out in Victorian Literature and Culture
Grateful to all at VLC: Rachel Ablow & Daniel Hack for editing & publishing this, and to Ariana Nadia Nash for all the support!
🔓Open Access
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