https://hcommons.org/members/bsmatzke/activity/ Activity feed for Brian Matzke. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:58:22 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 49fe5c3c8f9aa02c2a8a0f85d52845a5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1916966/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:53:47 -0400 0 a594b5cec3594f9d7a74ccc2473e1f3e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1825206/ Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:12:07 -0500 This paper argues that Richard Wright’s stories “Down by the Riverside” and “Silt” revise the ecological horror depicted in H.P. Lovecraft’s stories such as “The Shadow over Innsmouth” and “The Whisperer in Darkness”. The paper first examines how pulp fiction shaped discourse around the 1927 Mississippi River flood, then considers ecologica…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a3f17dc00b455661478c5bec4174266 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1825196/ Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:02:10 -0500 COVID-19 created an urgent need for the Elihu Burritt Library to adapt their traditional library services to the “new normal.” Librarians from all departments worked together to find creative ways to maintain a high level of service while respecting safety protocol and work-from-home conditions. At the heart of every decision was a strong des…[Read more]

]]> 0 be63b55fed6ae1d816ef94bbeeec5761 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749097/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:37:31 -0400 This dissertation explores a key period in the development of science as an everyday thing as reflected in the important cultures of letters containing the pulp magazines Amazing
Stories and Black Mask and the novel Arrowsmith, respectively science fiction, hardboiled detective fiction, and the realist novel. These genres’ cultural (…[Read more]

]]> 0 19e93e891e4f10ed71285fc0aafd9ff8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749084/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:19:19 -0400 Jacques Derrida famously asked in “The Law of Genre” (1980), “Can one identify a work of art…if it does not bear the mark of a genre?” As metadata elements, genres are both highly useful and highly unstable; the field lacks consistent and widely agreed-upon definitions of genres, and texts can evince traits of many genres in different ways and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c691ccc16297e9c55bffb7b25995891f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749078/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:01:55 -0400 Laura holds a privileged place in detective fiction and film noir, yet Vera Caspary’s novel has received little critical attention. This paper asserts that Caspary’s novel, written within a context of a hypermasculine culture, constitutes a significant feminist revision of the genre that disrupts the hardboiled/scientific binary. By sel…[Read more]

]]> 0 67ddf5293f83283135a35d41e5663006 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749074/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:23:06 -0400 Histories of science fiction often assume that women were absent from the genre’s early years in pulp magazines, or that their contributions took the form of more romantic or sentimental stories. This paper analyzes Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories (1926-1929) and argues that while women were underrepresented, they were crucial in moving the gen…[Read more]

]]> 0 5213884d880664210676dbf138c1f5f3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749073/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:19:34 -0400 Results – Students and librarians both considered the consultation process to be successful in advancing learning objectives and research skills. All students reported that the consultations met their expectations, and most reported that the skills acquired were applicable to their projects and significantly improved the quality of their work. L…[Read more]

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