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BO RUBERG, Ph.D.
To reach Dr. Ruberg, please email them at bruberg [at] uci.edu. You can also find them on Twitter as @myownvelouria.
Dr. Ruberg is a Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine.
For more information about Dr. Ruberg and their work, please visit the "Bio & Contact" section or their UCI faculty page.OUR GLASS LAKE
is Bo's blog and personal website.- Title: "'Look, make Mother take you and me to Our Glass Lake tomorrow.' These were the textual words said to me by my twelve-year-old flame in a voluptuous whisper." -Lolita
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Author Archives: Bonnie
What happens when art students follow instructions literally
The lecture and workshop on homosexuality in video games that I gave a week or two back at The University of Gotland’s GAME department seemed to go over quite well. Incidentally, during the workshop portion–which involved breaking students into groups … 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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Bonnie goes to Sweden, talks about everything ever
There appears to be a decently high chance that I will be up and flying to Visby this Sunday to speak at the University of Gotland. Gotland, as I, a member of the geographically largely uneducated, have only recently learned, … 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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“We Were Living in the Woods”
If you live in the Bay Area, the scenic intersection of Haight and Fillmore is officially recommending you go see Ericailcane‘s show at Upper Playground. It involves awesome (i.e. creepy, i.e. awesome) sculptures of woodland creatures with big glossy eyes … Continue reading
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“Wedding Booth Vikings”
These photos of my parents and aunt came from a booth set up at my cousin’s wedding in May. They are, for those who know my family, very strange. 1) These people very rarely pose for picutres. 2) These people … 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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“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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