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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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Category Archives: Literature
“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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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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“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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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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O of the month club
While in Paris this January, I picked up (okay, I obsessively cruised the Seine for) this copy of Story of O with stunning illustrations by Leonor Fini, which I’d read about but never actually *seen.* Now they live in my … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Happiness in objects, Literature
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