FEATURED
UNC Charlotte Graduates Find Success Writing for Children and Young Adults
In the fall of 1984, I joined UNC Charlotte’s English Department with the understanding that I would focus my teaching and scholarship on children’s literature. During the early years of my career as an English professor, I took a lot of pride and satisfaction in my successes in publishing articles and books. I remember, for example, when I sold a piece to the New York Times Book Review, I used the honorarium to throw a party for the entire English Department. I started...
Ecuador's Treatment of Venezuelan Migrants
Abstract (gated):
This article analyses strategies for channelling a migrant population out of a country by indirect means. Specifically, we examine the response of the Ecuadorean state to the influx of Venezuelan newcomers since 2015. We argue that this response has been characterised...
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Venezuela Committing Crimes Against Humanity
While recognising the nature of the crisis and tensions in the country, and the responsibilities of the State to maintain public order, the Mission found the Government, State agents, and groups working with them had committed egregious violations. It identified patterns of violations and crimes that were highly coordinated...
HUMANITIES
UNC Charlotte Graduates Find Success Writing for Children and Young Adults
In the fall of 1984, I joined UNC Charlotte’s English Department with the understanding that I would focus my teaching and scholarship on children’s literature. During the early years of my career as an English professor, I took a lot of pride and satisfaction in my successes in publishing articles and books. I remember, for example, when I sold a piece to the New York Times Book Review, I used the honorarium to throw a party for the entire English Department. I started...
What to Make of an Eating, Drinking, Walking, Talking “Jehovah”
NATURAL SCIENCES
Old School Dungeons & Dragons: Part 17
Since I’m behind in compiling my old school D&D posts from twitter, here’s another post!
Operation Seventh Seal (1985), by Evan Robinson. Let’s look at an adventure from another TSR roleplaying game, Top Secret!
Top Secret was introduced in 1980 as a contemporary espionage roleplaying game, designed by Merle M. Rasmussen and published by TSR.
Looking back on playing Top Secret as a teen, I’m struck at how strange it is: it is effectively “spy...
Old School Dungeons & Dragons: Part 16
Been a while since I’ve compiled my twitter threads on old school D&D, so time to catch up a bit!
Reunion (1998), by Jackie Cassada and Nicky Rea. Here we look at a rather unusual specimen from the Al-Qadim line of “Arabian Adventures.”
Reunion is a rather unusual adventure for a number of reasons. Though it is one of the Al-Qadim “Arabian Adventures” line produced by TSR, it came out some four years after that line had been officially ended!...
