Here comes the last section of this three-part series on gendered Gothic villains. If you haven’t yet read the first two parts, scroll down below and give them a read. Note: If you haven’t yet read The Castle of Otranto or A Sicilian Romance, they are both short reads and available freely online. Horace Walpole’sContinue reading “How Villains Are Depicted Differently in Male- vs. Female-Authored Gothic Novels of the Eighteenth Century (Part 3 of 3)”
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The Rebirth of Life
(I wrote this story more than 10 years ago for a college competition that I ended up winning. As a biology and mathematics enthusiast who had just joined the bioengineering program in an amazing institution, I found this story fueling my inner scientist until the moment I finished my PhD a year ago. Today, itContinue reading “The Rebirth of Life”
Why Graham Greene’s ‘The Destructors’ is linguistically and philosophically ambiguous
I recently had the opportunity to read Graham Greene’s short story The Destructors (1954) (If you haven’t read it yet, you might want to read it here – https://www.shortstoryproject.com/story/the-destructors/ – before going through the rest of this post). I was intrigued by the story’s highly ambiguous tone (both linguistically and philosophically) and soon discovered thatContinue reading “Why Graham Greene’s ‘The Destructors’ is linguistically and philosophically ambiguous”
The Shadows
It was 2:00 am. As I was leaving my lab, the bell housed in Burruss Hall – the main building of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies – had rung twice. It was strange for the main building of a university campus to have bells ringing like this one. But then, nothing about BlacksburgContinue reading “The Shadows”
The Roaring Kotzilla 