What I am reading this week:

Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity, by Shannon Jackson.

The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief,  by Anne Anlin Cheng

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America, by Saidiya V. Hartman

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, by bell hooks.

(And Denise Levertov poems, when my souls needs them.)