Bonnie Ruberg
is a comparative literature PhD student at UC Berkeley and a freelance journalist specializing in sexuality, surrealism, video games, and new media.
You can reach her at [her first name and last name, all one big word] at gmail.
Category Archives: Academia
Planking as Performance Art
The following is a post I wrote recently for my “Understanding New Media” class blog in response to Shannon Jackson’s book Social Works. I’m personally tickled by, and not entirely unserious about, planking as body-based performance art: A group of … Continue reading
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“Sex as Game: Playing with the Erotic Body in Virtual Worlds”
I published my first academic essay! It’s like being a nascent, nineteen-year-old freelance journalist all over again. “Sex as Game: Playing with the Erotic Body in Virtual Worlds” came out in Rhizomes 21: Hives and Tribes this past week. Rhizomes … Continue reading
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“Re-Writing Lolita: Nabokov Fan Fiction and the Reader as Literary Rebel”
The structured procrastination, she continues. In the midst of writing seminar papers and preparing to fly to Visby, I cobbled together an abstract for another grad student conference from an essay I wrote last year on Lolita and fan fiction. … Continue reading
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“Making Monsters”
One of the things I’ve put a lot of time into over the last few weeks is designing a theoretical syllabus for my pedagogy course. Ideally, when I teach my own class next fall (intro to literature and college writing), … Continue reading
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“Collecting the Mouse: Disney Pin Culture and the Consumption of Sentiment”
It turns out structured procrastination is a beautiful thing. While trying not to practice for my upcoming German translation exam (500 words, 1.5 hours, 1 stressed Bonnie), I brainstormed, researched, and wrote this abstract about Disney pin collecting culture for … Continue reading
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I convinced 35 college freshmen that Sade was a feminist. This is awesome.
Last week I taught my lesson plan on Sade’s Justine and Juliette and Angela Carter‘s Sadeian Woman. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of undergrads, but they all seemed decently comfortable talking about pornographic material (ah, the libertinage) … Continue reading
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I am waking up at 6:00 a.m. to teach Sade. Did you hear me? Sade.
Somehow I signed myself up to assistant teach an 8:00 a.m. class next semester (my first teaching endeavor since my French hooligans), which will mean being up in the city bright and early Why? Why!? I’ve always said getting up … Continue reading
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