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: I made a thing!
“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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“100 Works of Impossible Art”
At the Louvre last January, I saw a temporary exhibit on the art of the list, curated by Umberto Eco. The exhibit itself was underwhelming, but one piece — a large list written on one of the gallery walls — … Continue reading
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Sleep, you tease, I will figure you out
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been half-heartedly monitoring my sleep cycle using, you know, Sleep Cycle. In theory it’s useful for waking you up when you’re already most awake, circumventing that WTF-how-is-it-morning feeling. Normal charts come out looking like … Continue reading
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“Aeneas (But Never on the Tide)”
Continuing the proud tradition of bad automatic poetry generated in the rich creative environment that is the BART, here’s a piece seeded with the word “Aeneas.” Why yes, I am sensing a trend. This is what happens when you spend … 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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“Dido (The End of Falling)”
Today (November 15th) is a very frustrating day. It is made better by the fact that my brain wrote this sort of awful, sort of awesome poem on the BART this morning. Maybe I spent too much of my weekend reading … Continue reading
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“Ascanius”
What am I doing on a Saturday night? Yes, writing poetry about the Aeneid. At the moment I’m quite fond of this piece, actually. Then again, it just feels really good to be writing something (see: anything) in a creative … Continue reading
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“My Life as a Little Fable”
Tying up some loose ends at Heroine Sheik, I realized I’d never posted this interesting little photo project I did when I was back in Philadelphia last December. Follow the link for the rest of the set. After trying (and … Continue reading
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