...And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandius, king of kings:
Look on my words, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains....
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandius"
Essays, information, observations, speculations and other sample projects on literature and culture:
- An Introduction to Literary Criticism -- a brief guide to some of the key figures and movements in the history of literary criticism
- Holy Dread: the Theology of Supernatural Literature -- dissertation prospectus
- Hypertext / Hyperlit / Hyperclassroom: Humanities Instruction in the Wake of Hypertext -- a presentation delivered at the Fourth Annual UCR Graduate Student Conference
- "God's Wounds!": How Dracula Bled Christianity Dry -- a presentation at the 1999 Southland Conference, University of California, Los Angeles
- Manfred, Myth and Magic: the Gospel According to Byron -- presented at the 1999 Graduate Student Conference, UCR
- Hideous Progeny, Hideous Parentage : Parent / Child Relationships in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein --
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- an academic perspective on the hit show. Or possibly an extended joke.
- Magic and Spectacle -- a brief meditation on the nature of stage magic in the age of television
- Star Trek: Voyager -- the Credits -- evidence that if you turn up the gain on your critical microscope high enough, even the lowly credits sequence can be chock full of significance
- Postmodern Vampirism -- Fiends among us, and an example of pop.-culture criticism on-the-hoof.