Greetings, fellow readers! This January marks our Blogiversary--Shelf Life has been going strong for two years now! I think this is the longest I've ever stuck with a new year's resolution, and I could never have anticipated the publication this blog has grown into. To continue with this positive trend, I'd like to announce a new resolution for the blog. Many of you have given me positive feedback concerning the videos I posted last fall; therefore, I'd like to resolve to make at least one of my monthly posts a video chronicle. This will keep me growing and learning as a blogger and hopefully provide some entertainment and variety for all of you.
With that being said, let's turn our attention to another significant event of the past week: the start of the spring semester! This semester might just be my favorite class lineup ever. I'm taking:
Latin I, with a professor who just might be the 11th Doctor in disguise (for all you Doctor Who fans out there). In addition to conjugating verbs and making fun of the ridiculous pronunciation guide, I'm keeping a Tie of the Day dossier to document his manifold bow tie choices.
Women Writers and Classical Mythology. This is easily shaping up to be my favorite class of the semester. It's taught by two of my favorite professors, one from the English department and one from Classics. We're reading modern poetry in conjunction with ancient myths and studying the connection between the two, particularly as it concerns the role of women in art and society. In addition to that, the class is curating an exhibit at the Harn Museum of Art and creating our own interpretation of women, myth, and visual culture via Pinterest--stay tuned for more on that once the project's underway.
American Literature Seminar: Sexing the Past. Described by my prof as "graduate school lite," this class is essentially the same as the UF graduate class with the same name, only with about half the reading and writing load. My AmLit teacher from last semester is leading this class, which promises to be an interesting investigation of what we talk about when we talk about sex, and how we can understand and study sex and sexuality when our own understanding of the two is both similar and different to the way we understood sex in the past. This week, we read part of Foucault's History of Sexuality and an excerpt from William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation called "A Terrible Case of Bestiality" for an early American take on sexual deviance.
Talk Nerdy to Me. This is a one-credit class I'm taking for fun with my roommate Allison and Shakespeare buddy David. It's about nerds and nerd culture, and while we haven't gotten too far into it, I'm stoked for our next meeting, which is listed on the syllabus as "I came in like a Pokeball." How can that class possibly be boring?
My last class, The Grandeur that was Rome, doesn't meet until tomorrow, so I have nothing to say about it except that the reading list looks promising. My prof from Classics and Fantasy is teaching it, which means we're sure to have good discussion.
That's all for now, except to say that my A Song of Ice and Fire readthrough has progressed to A Storm of Swords--ah, how I sigh to think of the carnage to come!
Until next time,
Anna
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