March 2023 – Philip Nel

Keep on shining. #PlagueSongs, no. 41

Since the pandemic is now over-ish, I’m posting what I had intended to post as my final “Plague Song,” last March: Carsie Blanton’s “Buck Up”! I never quite got around to it last year. Several reasons. The pandemic doesn’t have a definitive end point because, well, we will still need vaccinations, which are unequally distributed,

CALL FOR PAPERS: MLA, Jan 4-7, 2024, Philadelphia

March 6, 2023Philip NelCall for Papers, Children's Literature, MLA, Nostalgia2 Comments

Call for Papers: Nostalgia in and for Children’s Literature CFP for a guaranteed session sponsored by the MLA Forum on Children’s and Young Adult Literature. To be held at the 2024 MLA in Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024 Nostalgia is a transideological phenomenon. Its politics depend upon the direction of its longing. There’s the restorative variety that