Volume XXIX, Issue 2 – Fall 2023
FROM THE EDITOR
The Value of Not Knowing
AGLSP TEACHING AWARD – 2023
Graduate Liberal Studies and the Medieval University
Newell Boyd, Rice University
excellence in interdisciplinary writing AWARD – 2023
Colonial Astronomers and the Transit of Venus: An Exemplar of American Enlightened Thinking
Kelly A. Harrison, Stanford University
frederick luis aldama excellence in creative writing AWARD – 2023
The Fifth Incident
Hana S. Elysia, San Diego State University
commentary
What Does It Mean to Be Human?
Patricia Magee, University of Delaware
essay
The “It Me” Meme: Discovering OurShared Unconscious
Brian Blakely, Southern Methodist University
creative nonfiction
And the Wind Cries Mary: An Elegy for Tommy
Roberto Argentina, Rice University
essay
How Gay Is Geiger? The Queer-Volution of Raymond Chandler’sThe Big Sleep—from Short Story (1935) to Novel (1939) to Film Noir (1946)
Lee Casson, Johns Hopkins University
fiction
The List-Makers: A True and False Tale
Dennelle Gibbins-Lyon, Rice University
creative nonfiction
A Russian Carole
Donna Grimley, Rice University
book review
Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies, by Naomi Zack
Reviewed by Margaret Vaughan, Metropolitan State University