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When, in the 1870s and 1880s, the fashion for medieval French verse forms in English poetry resulted in an influx of villanelles, rondeaux, triolets, and other fixed forms, there was [...]

The article focuses on the relevance of Victorian poetry in the context of contemporary global challenges, specifically climate change. Topics include the historical development of "women's poetry" and its implications for current gender discussions, the role of close reading as a unique methodology in literary studies, and the potential of humanities skills to offer valuable insights and resilience in a future increasingly dominated by AI.

This short essay offers a few frames of reference from my current perspective within the US. I am a professor at New York University, but worked in UK universities for [...]

If Decadent poetry is "one of the most comprehensive modern attempts to turn sex into epistemology," how might ideas of embodied cognition help us understand what that might mean? This article responds to that question with an analysis of an Impressionist, erotic epistemology in Arthur Symons work. Focusing on London Nights (1897), which considers questions of erotic epistemology, it is argued that Impressionist techniques become a vehicle in his poetry for exploring cognition, Impressionism becoming a key mode of Decadent apprehension and a crucial means for questioning Decadent epistemologies. Embodied cognition theory expands our understanding of both the possibilities and conceptual contexts of Impressionism within a literary historical context. [109 words] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the art history, the digital aesthetics, the technical anatomy, and the restoration of Shu Lea Cheang's early web artwork Brandon (1998-1999). Commissioned two decades ago by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the work is just back on view to the public after a major restoration. It seems timely to consider Cheang's artwork: a collaboration between the artist and a network of programmers, designers, authors and other contributors that offers a creative platform for remembering and engaging with histories and issues of identity from the LGBTQ+ community. In the spirit of the piece, this article is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between a curator, a media art conservator, a computer scientist, and a scholar of the digital liberal arts, which brings together these different areas of expertise to offer an innovative and multi-faceted consideration of one artwork from a digital humanities perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]