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“The students produced over eighty single-space pages of notes, conversation, analysis, and insight. At sixty thousand words, they had written a book. And because our class read all of A Visitation of Spirits, Let the Dead Bury their Dead, and If I Had Two Wings, they were often writing about stories that have been slighted or ignored by other literary critics.”

“Grimsley’s allusions to multiple sorts of 1970s queerness evidence his continued interest in parallel times and in terms that evoke the slippery and shifting interpretations and possibilities in our world….”

Wrapping up the semester After imagining the massacre and coup in Marrow, reckoning with it in Wilmington’s Lie, and finally, recovering the stories in the… Read More »Field Trip to Wilmington

Wilmington Daily Record The final third of this blended course is actually a years-long project: recovering the history and stories of Black Wilmington before the… Read More »Weeks 11–15: Archival Research

The literary analysis unit ends with the students researching and writing a four-source annotated bibliography on scholarly articles that approach The Marrow of Tradition from… Read More »Weeks 1–5 Assignment