My PhD thesis: Norming the Other: Narrative Empathy Via Focalised Heterotopia
I’ve had many requests to see the thesis I wrote for my PhD, “Norming the Other: Narrative Empathy Via Focalised Heterotopia.” While…
Read moreMonth: June 2017
29 years ago
Exactly 29 years ago, on a hot summer day in East Lansing, on the first day of the Clarion Writers Workshop, I…
Read moreI am now Doctor Griffith
Today I had my viva voce at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK). I successfully defended my PhD thesis, “Norming the Other: Narrative Empathy Via Focalised Heterotopia.” I am Doctor Griffith.
Read moreA sled chair pulled by direwolves
This latest trailer looks fabulous! In addition to all the essential tropes of great fantasy—swords and ponies! dragons and seers! queens and kings!—we now have an important and powerful character in a wheelchair.
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Music of early 1981: what I was listening to
This weekend the Guardian did a 6-page spread on Visible Girls: Revisited, the retrospective-and-redo of the famous 1981 series. Here’s a playlist of the music I was listening to when that original photo was taken.
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Silenced voices: relative representation in the House of Commons
In a perfectly just world, we might expect to see the demographics of the electorate reflected in the demographics of their representatives. It is not a perfectly just world. To find out just how unjust it is, I’ve been doing some counting, using population numbers as a proxy for electorate and comparing them to the newly-elected MPs.
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One-day workshop Sunday 8 October: Registration now open!
I’m teaching a one-day workshop for Clarion West on Sunday 8 October, 10am-4pm: What Readers Like—And Why. It will be held in an accessible space (I will most probably be in a wheelchair) in the U District of Seattle, and costs $150. Fourteen participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is open.
Read moreGood music for hard times
It’s been a day of hard news. But here’s a song I love, I’ve always loved. It always helps me. Perhaps it…
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