by Thomas Hallock | Nov 21, 2014 | Road Course
The clock was blinking 3:15. David Letterman was retiring this week. I started a list in my head. What are my ten favorite journal articles? The journal article is to the monograph what the short story is to the novel. In less than twenty pages, the scholar should...
by Thomas Hallock | Nov 17, 2014 | Road Course
My day job as an early Americanist, when not not goofing off on this Road Course, is recovering the antebellum literature of Florida. Historians have worked this field for decades, but the literature — a study in obscurity. Take Juan de Castellanos’ Elegia...
by Thomas Hallock | Nov 8, 2014 | Road Course
How do words move us from Point A to Point B? Phillis Wheatley’s lines embody transit. Stolen from around present-day Gambia at seven years old, she came to America on the ship that tendered her name, the Phillis. Genteel Bostonians John and Susan Wheatley...
