Knowledge Commons | Matthew John Phillips | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/mjphilli/activity/ Activity feed for Matthew John Phillips. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:18:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8aef6507a46b16106c4e96a868b2b00e Matthew John Phillips edited the post Toward a More Generous Future in the group Connected Academics https://connect.mla.hcommons.org/toward-a-more-generous-future/ Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:24:05 -0400 By Matthew John Phillips

During the 2017 MLA Annual Convention in New York City, I had the pleasure of participating in the inaugural Connected Academics Career Development Boot Camp. An offshoot of the New York City Proseminar on Careers, the boot camp was a four-day intensive workshop for exploring career opportunities beyond academia.…[Read more]

]]> 278eee6daa43ea2685d99d99a76012f6 Matthew John Phillips deposited Navigating Chance: Statistics, Empire, and Agency in R. L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607230/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 22:04:06 -0400 By connecting Treasure Island’s fascination with quantity to the problem of responsibility, I argue that the novel elaborates a model of accountability that is particularly salient in light of the divorce of the particular from the general that both statistics and imperial expansion enabled. Central to the overlap of these terms is the question o…[Read more]

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