America, or a Vision in a Dream

Nearly three years have passed since I have examined Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” a poem that I understood to be an opium user’s musings. Reading this in tandem with de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater in a British Lit course, Xanadu was fairly obvious: a hedonistic paradise both awe-inspiring and terrible.
However, Mazzeo’s ‘The [...]

Transatlanticists against Transcendentalists

A quick thought before it disappears into the catacombs of my mind forever:
Transatlantic study removes borders and boundaries and focuses on the region as a collective whole, a region of exchange that ranges from influential to detrimental.
However non-conventional this approach may be, why stop at the Transatlantic region? Surely, exchange is greater in scope [...]

Sort It Out

To bring you up to speed: After months of deliberation and the end-all decision that law school was not this moment’s calling, I applied to the University of Edinburgh’s Literature and Transatlanticism program — a new program that bridges cross-cultural theoretical exchange with literature. This program is ultimately perfect for me and there [...]