Ocker, Christopher. “The Motion of Another’s Death: Grief and Mourning.” In Death, Burial and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1300-1700, 368-392. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2020. 978-90-04044343-3. Oster, Sharon B. “Holocaust Shoes: Metonymy, Matter, Memory.” In Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, edited by Victoria Aarons, Phyllis Lassner, 761-784. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. 9783030334277. Oster, Sharon B. “The Muselmann Liberated: Impossible Metaphors in Holocaust Literature and Photography.” In Lessons and Legacies XIV: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age, edited by Tim Cole, Simone Gigliotti, 761-784. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2021. 9780810142725.
Leslie Brody Professor of Creative Writing
Harriet the Spy author’s truth-telling launched generations of diarists In Louise Fitzhugh’s 1964 seminal children’s novel Harriet the Spy, a young girl keeps a notebook to record her observations about her friends, neighbors, and classmates. Creative Writing Professor Leslie Brody encourages her students to do the same. “Louise Fitzhugh was herself a truth-teller and a realist,” says Brody. “She recognized how children, in particular, are hostages to the ideological winds. Louise makes the case in all her books for children’s liberation; she provides life-preserving strategies children may employ in their power struggle with adults. Lying is one time-honored tactic; self-reliance is another.” Brody authored a biography about Fitzhugh, Sometimes You Have To Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy (Seal Press, 2020), as well as a stage adaptation of Harriet the Spy, which has
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resulted in nearly 30 productions in the last five years. Fitzhugh was brought up with the conventional argument that small fibs lubricated social relations, and sometimes it was kinder to lie. A girl especially needed to calculate the odds in an unforgiving social code that could turn a misunderstanding into a lifetime grievance. “In adolescence, when Louise realized that she was a lesbian, she also came to understand the risks attending exposure: condemnation by family, denunciation by religion, punishment by state and federal laws,” adds Brody. “She has shown free-thinking children they can be happy as themselves, while her truthtelling has launched a million diarists. That’s the legacy for which so many readers love her and why they fondly remember their Harriet experience.”
Eugene Park. “Dialectic of alētheia and eleutheria in Galatians.” In Matthew, Paul, and Others, edited by William Loader, Borris Repchenski, 121-136. Innsbruck, Austria: University of Innsbruck Press, 2019. Pick, James B., and Avijit Sarkar. “Digital Divides.” In Routledge Handbook of Media Geographies, edited by Paul Adams, Barney Warf, London, England: Routledge, 2021. 978-0367482855. Pick, James B., and Avijit Sarkar. “Geographies of Global Digital Divides.” In Geographies of the Internet, edited by Barney Warf, 115-136. London, England: Routledge, 2021. 9780367420420. Raffety, Matthew T. “Historians, Lincoln, and ‘the Ruining of America’”. In Reckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom, edited by Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T.K. Hunter, Timothy P McCarthy, 82-107. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 978-0231192576. Raffety, Matthew T. “’The Law is the Lord of the Sea’: Maritime Law as Global Maritime History.” In A World at Sea: Maritime Practices in Global History, 1500-1900, edited by Lauren Benton, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, 53-74. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 978-0812252415. Reksten, Nicholas, and Maria Floro. “Feminist Ecological Economics: A Care-Centred Approach to Sustainability.” In Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume 1: Challenges and Development, edited by Ranjula Bali Swain, Susanne Sweet, 369-389. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 978-3-030-56370-7.
