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Matthew John Phillips edited the post Toward a More Generous Future in the group
Connected Academics: on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoDuring 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]
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Matthew John Phillips deposited Navigating Chance: Statistics, Empire, and Agency in R. L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
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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Matthew John Phillips changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago
