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 moreI’ve had many requests to see the thesis I wrote for my PhD, “Norming the Other: Narrative Empathy Via Focalised Heterotopia.” While…
Read moreExactly 29 years ago, on a hot summer day in East Lansing, on the first day of the Clarion Writers Workshop, I…
Read moreToday 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 moreThis 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.
Read moreThis 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.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreI’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 moreIt’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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