This short piece just came out in Portal, the magazine of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. I am glad to have had the chance to reflect on the past year’s administrative crazy at SBU, and will be writing a postdata to this text to bring it up to date.
https://llilasbensonmagazine.org/2018/08/27/alumni-spotlight-a-language-is-not-a-widget/
Mary smiles. She's eating water crackers with her friends at the Sac and Fox boarding school near Stroud, Oklahoma. She smiles and they smile watching her smile. She smiles holding a "Takhoma Biscuit," one carton sits open, another sits underneath a pitcher of water or milk.
I'm starting a new series called "NDN smiles". It's going to last four to six weeks and mostly rely on archival photographs such as this one that are housed in digital collections--here from the Newberry Library. I have been mulling this one over for
If you are receiving this, you are successfully signed up (transferred from Substack). I'll be posting from ghost henceforth. Here's to phantasmagoric feelings. I've been traveling a bit the past couple weeks. Two weeks ago, I was in Austin giving a talk with my
I have a couple deadlines. School was supposed to start yesterday. I’m supposed to be writing, but I’m not. Or I’m writing while not writing.