I looked, because other post that made me think about something I should have paid more attention to.
I looked, because other post that made me think about something I should have paid more attention to.
Also, Rachel Fulton Brown is a piece of work. She is the whitest white woman to ever white in her white privilege. Her problem isn't being a conservative in academia. Contrary to popular belief, there are a LOT of conservatives in academia. Her problem, on a superficial skimming of a lot of stuff of hers, is that she conflates her personal religious beliefs with her scholarly work and then tries to co-opt other cherry picked bits of stuff and ties herself to (for example) Tolkien, Jesus, and the Virgin Mary as a way of validating herself and her opinions.
I haven't read any of her (theoretically pure) scholarly writings themselves. Maybe they are brilliant. But the rest of her stuff? Let me summarize with just this, I guess now well known, bit from her blogging:
"Shame on all of you. You spineless cunts. The bullies are YOU."
Which, she says, was a quote from Milo Yiannopoulos, at the end of a post defending Milo Yiannopoulos.
It's even more interesting to read her official page at U of Chi. Where she talks about her teaching "methodology":
... the stories with which we fill our imaginations shape our souls as well as our actions in the world.
... the study of history is valuable not just for the skills that it imparts, but also for its content because it is the content of its stories that gives shape to our understanding of ourselves and our world.
It is the practice of telling ourselves, as human beings, who we are.
She repeats this all in the same paragraph. So what does it mean that she quotes Yiannopoulos while defending Yiannopoulos? What does it say about the shape of her soul, her actions in the world, her understanding? What does it tell her and us about who she is?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/07/12/medieval-studies-groups-say-major-conference-trying-limit-diverse-voices-and-topics
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/07/12/medieval-studies-groups-say-major-conference-trying-limit-diverse-voices-and-topics
Also, Rachel Fulton Brown is a piece of work. She is the whitest white woman to ever white in her white privilege. Her problem isn't being a conservative in academia. Contrary to popular belief, there are a LOT of conservatives in academia. Her problem, on a superficial skimming of a lot of stuff of hers, is that she conflates her personal religious beliefs with her scholarly work and then tries to co-opt other cherry picked bits of stuff and ties herself to (for example) Tolkien, Jesus, and the Virgin Mary as a way of validating herself and her opinions.
I haven't read any of her (theoretically pure) scholarly writings themselves. Maybe they are brilliant. But the rest of her stuff? Let me summarize with just this, I guess now well known, bit from her blogging:
"Shame on all of you. You spineless cunts. The bullies are YOU."
Which, she says, was a quote from Milo Yiannopoulos, at the end of a post defending Milo Yiannopoulos.
It's even more interesting to read her official page at U of Chi. Where she talks about her teaching "methodology":
... the stories with which we fill our imaginations shape our souls as well as our actions in the world.
... the study of history is valuable not just for the skills that it imparts, but also for its content because it is the content of its stories that gives shape to our understanding of ourselves and our world.
It is the practice of telling ourselves, as human beings, who we are.
She repeats this all in the same paragraph. So what does it mean that she quotes Yiannopoulos while defending Yiannopoulos? What does it say about the shape of her soul, her actions in the world, her understanding? What does it tell her and us about who she is?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/07/12/medieval-studies-groups-say-major-conference-trying-limit-diverse-voices-and-topics
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/07/12/medieval-studies-groups-say-major-conference-trying-limit-diverse-voices-and-topics
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