Category: Ben Railton

+ Ben Railton, emily pierce, hal jacobs, henry jacobs, killers of the dream, lillian e smith, lillian smith: breaking the silence, patricia bell-scott, strange fruit, tanya bennett

“Celebrating Lillian Smith” Symposium

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This year marks the 75th anniversary of Lillian E. Smith’s Strange Fruit and the 70th of Killers of the Dream. To celebrate, the Lillian E. Smith Center will host a symposium on October 26 in Athens, GA, to celebrate Lillian Smith’s life, work, and legacy. You can find more information below. Even if you cannot make the symposium, please share it on social media … Read More “Celebrating Lillian Smith” Symposium

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+ american literature, Ben Railton, f. scott fitzgerald, jesmyn ward, modernism, nick carraway, nineteenth century literature, stephanie powell watts, the great gatsby, twentieth century literature

The Great Gatsby Lecture

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For my lecture last fall on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), I decided to focus on the ways that Fitzgerald’s novel does not speak for all of its readers but also how the novel overtly challenges the myth of the American Dream. This challenging of the myth does not only occur with Gatsby. Rather, it occurs from the very beginning of the … Read More The Great Gatsby Lecture

+ Ben Railton, blogging, dissertation, graduate school, Pedagogy, porductivity

How do you maintain productivity?

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Note: Images from PhD Comics. Over the past few years, various people have asked me how I remain so productive with such a packed schedule. Today, I want to provide some tips to remain productive amidst so much work that needs to be done. This is by no means an exhaustive list of ways to remain productive. When I say productive, I am speaking … Read More How do you maintain productivity?

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