Kelly PlanteinHuman AbstractsShining a Light: Early Protest ArtJosiah Wedgwood, creator of the still-coveted matte-style pottery of the same name, was also a staunch abolitionist. He designed the…8 min read·Nov 8, 2018----
Kelly PlanteinHuman Abstracts“The Wheel Is Come Full Circle; I am Here”: An Inter-text Approach to King Lear, act 5This lesson plan builds upon recent scholarship in history of the book such as Cynthia Clegg’s essay, “King Lear and Early…6 min read·Nov 8, 2018----
Kelly PlanteinHuman AbstractsThe Reputation of a Woman: Female (Self) Authorship, Journaling, and the Rise of the Epistolary…“Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all…13 min read·Nov 5, 2018----
Kelly PlanteinHuman AbstractsHabermas’s Rise of the Public Sphere: “News Paper” & Novel Consumerism in 18th Century EnglandSolely by the act of translating Habermas, and in articulating “why now?” for multiple rhetorical spheres/readerships, this translation in…6 min read·Nov 5, 2018----
Kelly PlanteinHuman AbstractsWordsworth and Coleridge: The Original Non-conforming ConformistsThe Romantic subjectivity of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge — and the sharpened skill of their wordsmithing — draw…3 min read·Nov 5, 2018----
Kelly PlanteinHuman AbstractsShakespeare as Intro-to-Philosophy Instructor/guide: King Lear and KierkegaardThis lesson plan uses Shakespeare’s King Lear as a framework for introducing and considering important philosophical questions–in this…6 min read·Nov 5, 2018----
Kelly PlanteinHuman AbstractsIn the spirit of academic self-care, this week my reading response will consist in a reflection on…Luckily, prior to embarking on the Ph.D. process, I formed a strong relationship with task management and goal mastery texts that seem so…5 min read·Oct 29, 2018----
Kelly PlanteinHuman Abstracts“More” Tribulations of the Self: I Fashioneth, I Taketh AwayStephen Greenblatt’s chapter “At the Table of the Great: More’s Self-fashioning and Self-cancellation,” in Renaissance Self-fashioning…4 min read·Oct 29, 2018----
Kelly PlanteinHuman AbstractsFound in Translation: Braving the Storm in King Lear Act 2 and Kurosawa’s Ran[Singing]3 min read·Oct 29, 2018----
Kelly PlanteinHuman AbstractsIt’s All in the Family (Business): Divided Power and Organizational Behavior in King Lear Act 2“Thou think’st ‘tis much that this contentious storm invades us to the skin. So ‘tis to thee, But where the greater malady is fixed the…4 min read·Oct 29, 2018----