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Age of Awareness

What Anthony Hopkins Teaches Us About Living with Autism

Why his 2021 Academy Award for Best Actor was not received in vain

Apr 28, 2021

What Anthony Hopkins Teaches Us About Living with Autism

Apr 28, 2021

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London Literary Review

Revisiting Mexico City’s History in Christina Rivera-Garza’s Fiction

Aug 3, 2022

Revisiting Mexico City’s History in Christina Rivera-Garza’s Fiction

Aug 3, 2022

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Queertopia

Whether Matt Damon Said it Or Not, the Queer Stage Is Not His

Recently catapulted — by himself, let’s add — into a notoriously sparse mainstream queer dialogue, Matt Damon both has and hasn’t used the…

Aug 24, 2021

Whether Matt Damon Said it Or Not, the Queer Stage Is Not His

Aug 24, 2021

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Age of Awareness

Alone on Mother’s Day? You’re Not Alone

Motherhood is a rich, deep, inimitable treasure. Just not when it’s wrapped up in cellophane.

May 9, 2021

Alone on Mother’s Day? You’re Not Alone

May 9, 2021

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Politically Speaking

Not Everyone Gets To Participate in Conspiracy Theories

Indulging in social mythology might mean you have nothing real to worry about

Apr 29, 2021

Not Everyone Gets To Participate in Conspiracy Theories

Apr 29, 2021

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Age of Awareness

A fourth rhetorical device: the role of kairos in narrative discourse

The lesser-known rhetorical device, kairos, is defined by the timing and appropriateness of its storytelling

Apr 27, 2020

A fourth rhetorical device: the role of kairos in narrative discourse

Apr 27, 2020

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Age of Awareness

The labor of love for other: the psychology of writing as a social act

Studying the social psychology of writing requires us to identify how reading meaningful texts stimulates our collective neural networks.

Apr 15, 2020

The labor of love for other: the psychology of writing as a social act

Apr 15, 2020

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Predict

No, we’re not seeing eco-fascism — yet

Why we aren’t there yet, but why thinking of what the term means is no less pressing for those who will not make it through covid-19

Apr 14, 2020

No, we’re not seeing eco-fascism — yet

Apr 14, 2020

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Epilogue

Addressing the phenomenon of “headline reading”

How writers begin to think of “headline reading” as a gateway — not a roadblock — into our readers’ multimedia minds

Apr 13, 2020

Addressing the phenomenon of “headline reading”

Apr 13, 2020

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Predict

It’s Kafka, always: the boundary between us and the world

The anxieties caused by our present-day grapple with novel coronavirus, like the abundance of absurdities experienced in not-so-routine…

Apr 9, 2020

It’s Kafka, always: the boundary between us and the world

Apr 9, 2020

Ryan Kirby

Ryan Kirby

An instructor/ PhD student of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. My primary focus is on the intersection of ideology and literary theory.

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