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Regina Harrison
Brian Richardson primary areas of interest are narrative theory, twentieth century literature, and the poetics of drama. His current focus is on the major fiction of Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett. He is also interested in unusual and audacious works by authors of all periods from Aristophanes and Petronius to Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie. He is the organizer and director of the Washington Area Modernist Symposium and the UM James Joyce Colloquium 2007.
Two recent works from Professor Richardson are posted below: Eugene Robinson has worked with Mitchell Lifton on the The Rosebud Project, an evolving digital resource site for Film Studies. The site is dedicated to the discipline of film studies and its component parts, film history, criticism, theory, and concepts & definitions. It includes news of events, festivals, and other relevant happenings. Under more or less constant evolution, the site seeks to become a major resource for film scholars, critics, students, or plain movie buffs. It will also function as a digital publication locus (see especially calls for papers). Of particular interest would be material dealing with the relationship of film studies to cognitive studies and of both to evolution studies. Robinson's award-winning film Tar Baby, about growing up in the inner city and the growth of heroes, was selected for exhibition abroad by the USIA and included in the Black Filmmakers Exhibit at the St.Louis Art Museum. He has completed a script for the documentary Threads:/ Malkia, Portrait of the Artist. His essay Television Advertising and Its Impact on Black America was published by the National Urban League in The State of Black America, and his article ãWhat is Madison Avenue Telling Us? appeared in Black Film Review.
Additionally, Robinson wrote the script for the documentary "The Class of '52," a film detailing the successful court fight of parents of deaf African-American children who were admitted to the Kendall School at Gallaudet University in 1952. The project was completed under a $75,000 grant and chronicled the evolution of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in 1857 to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, and finally to the Kendall School for the education of all deaf children. To look at a printed essay on Immanuel Kant from Orrin Wang’s projected work on sensation and sobriety in British and European Romanticism, click here . Romantic Circles Praxis SeriesOrrin Wang is the series editor of The Romantic Circles Praxis Series an electronic collection of critical and theoretical writings on British and European Romanticism. He has recently edited two volumes in the Series, one on Romanticism and Patriotism and one comprised of interviews with Geoffrey Hartman and Harold Bloom.
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