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Journal of Prison Education and Reentry (JPER), 2020
This qualitative study examines the immediate and lasting impact of liberal arts higher education... more This qualitative study examines the immediate and lasting impact of liberal arts higher education in prison from the perspective of former college-in-prison students from the Northeastern United States. Findings obtained through semi-structured interviews with formerly incarcerated people are presented in the following three areas: self-confidence and agency, interpersonal relationships, and capacity for civic leadership. This study further examines former students' reflections on the relationship between education and human transformation and begins to benchmark college programming with attention to the potential for such transformation. The authors identify four characteristics critical to a program's success: academic rigor, the professor's respect for students, discussion-based learning, and respectful relationships between college and prison personnel. This study contributes to the growing field of scholarship on the benefits of prison higher education beyond those captured by studies of high-level data, such as the rate of return to prison.
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"the gap / That we shall make in time": Emblematics and the Queer Drive of History in Cymbeline T... more "the gap / That we shall make in time": Emblematics and the Queer Drive of History in Cymbeline The early modern emblem – that amalgam of text and image – produced a debate of perhaps surprising intensity and duration. Between 1550 and 1642 few topics energized rhetorical, literary and pictorial theorists more than the questions about meaning and figuration that the emblem seemed to have evoked, questions connected to the paragone debate, but perhaps more culturally central, since what was debated was not just the superiority of one art over another, but the foundational question of how meaning is produced and where it lies. The stakes in this debate, that is, are nothing less than establishing how figures signify. My interest here is in another perhaps surprising phenomenon: the extent to which postmodern theory, and in particular queer theory, continues to grapple with these same issues, and to do so in a way that is potentially illuminating for the early modern debate. Because that earlier conversation became so quickly and thoroughly entrammeled in a more specific and more virulent debate – between the Protestant insistence on the primacy of the word and the Catholic reliance (at least in the eyes of the reformers) on the image – arguments about the emblem might seem bound to a particular historical moment. What I argue here, however, is that there is a much longer arc to this discussion and that we are by no means finished with it. At its heart, the discussion takes on the theme of this volume: does the verbal power implicit in the etymology of historia have a peculiar claim to the truth, or does the "body" of the image have an immanent and empirical claim that supersedes it? The additional
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A new belief in time as more fully successive and teleological emerges in conjunction with the sa... more A new belief in time as more fully successive and teleological emerges in conjunction with the sacramental hermeneutics of the Reformation. No longer invested in the synchronism of the doctrine of real presence, or in the icons and relics that purported to figure Christ, early modern humanists embraced absence in place of presence, past in place of present. Protestant sacramental theory, specifically Calvin's reinterpretation of the Eucharist, similarly revises the early modern understanding of time. This revision is complicated and even challenged in English poetry, with John Donne's poetry exemplifying this dynamic. By eroticizing the sacrament, as apparent in "Valediction: of My Name on a Window" and "The Relique," Donne reworks the relationship between abstinence and eros, absence and presence, and diachronicity and synchronicity that had been created by the schism within Christianity. Donne's poetry produces absence as a mode of presence, rather ...
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A new belief in time as more fully successive and teleological emerges in conjunction with the sa... more A new belief in time as more fully successive and teleological emerges in conjunction with the sacramental hermeneutics of the Reformation. No longer invested in the synchronism of the doctrine of real presence, or in the icons and relics that purported to figure Christ, early modern humanists embraced absence in place of presence, past in place of present. Protestant sacramental theory, specifically Calvin's reinterpretation of the Eucharist, similarly revises the early modern understanding of time. This revision is complicated and even challenged in English poetry, with John Donne's poetry exemplifying this dynamic. By eroticizing the sacrament, as apparent in "Valediction: of My Name on a Window" and "The Relique," Donne reworks the relationship between abstinence and eros, absence and presence, and diachronicity and synchronicity that had been created by the schism within Christianity. Donne's poetry produces absence as a mode of presence, rather ...
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This qualitative study examines the immediate and lasting impact of liberal arts higher education... more This qualitative study examines the immediate and lasting impact of liberal arts higher education in prison from the perspective of former college-in-prison students from the Northeastern United States. Findings obtained through semi-structured interviews with formerly incarcerated people are presented in the following three areas: self-confidence and agency, interpersonal relationships, and capacity for civic leadership. This study further examines former students’ reflections on the relationship between education and human transformation and begins to benchmark college programming with attention to the potential for such transformation. The authors identify four characteristics critical to a program’s success: academic rigor, the professor's respect for students, discussion-based learning, and respectful relationships between college and prison personnel. This study contributes to the growing field of scholarship on the benefits of prison higher education beyond those captured...
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Exemplaria, 2011
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