Memory texts and memory work: Performances of memory in and with visual media

The online version of this article can be found at: http://mss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/05/24/175069801037003

Denise Riley's socialized biology

This essay surveys the work of Denise Riley (b. 1948) from roughly 1975-1985, paying close attention to the formal textures of her prose and poetry alongside the political and personal contexts that occasioned these writings and the ways in which Riley intervened in them. The aim is twofold: firstly, to provide an adequate account of the interconnections between Riley's prose, poetry, and political work, which has not been done adequately to date; secondly, to situate this portrait in terms of the social stakes of literary, anti-capitalist, and feminist politics and pedagogies. Read together, her early prose and poetry trace what she calls a "socialized biology" at the heart of poetic and political language. Riley's work provides strategies for interrupting the traditional view of poetry as pre-political moral training

Columbus Rally Speech

Speech for campaign rally at Nationwide Plaza, Columbus, OH, September 12, 1984.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_speeches_1984/1093/thumbnail.jp

Historical geography II: traces remain

The second report in this series turns to focus on the trace in relation to life-writing and biography in historical geography and beyond. Through attention to tracing journeys, located moments and listening to the presence of ghosts (Ogborn, 2005), this report seeks to highlight the range of different ways in which historical geographers have explored lives, deaths, and their transient traces through varied biographical terrains. Continuing to draw attention in historical geography to the darkest of histories, this piece will pivot on moments of discovering the dead to showcase the nuanced ways in which historical geography is opening doors into uncharted lives and unspoken histories