Michael G. Cronin’s seminar, Hopeful and Homoerotic Spaces in Irish Writing, dealt with how “homoerotic desire can be a vector for utopian longing”. As he went on, I could not help but let my mind wander around; think about those pieces I’ve read or watched that captured homoerotic yearning, and which ones stood out to… Continue reading homoerotic victorians

Rita Kelly’s Research Seminar, ‘Revisiting thus the glimpses of the moon’, focused on a literary genre that had been greatly overlooked during my undergrad back in Spain: the short story. Perhaps it was so because of the necessity and hunger to cram every longer-length classic into the syllabus, leaving no space for the shorter (but… Continue reading short stories, long-lasting impact