Welcome to the ENGL 101 blog for Reading and Writing about Sex and Power from Pre-modern to Present at the University of South Carolina....

Everyone has been taught different ways on organizing research (if they have been trained in it at all!), so it is always important to...

Evidently I have been missing out on some of the new posts on pre-modern studies lately, so here's a few that might interest some of...

Medieval travelogues often feature illustrations of other beings from around the world, some of them realistic(-ish) and some of them...

For those of you who like Science Fiction Sci-fi in the Middle Ages

If you're into literature (especially Gatsby, Jane Austen, Lord of the Flies, or Shakespeare), the SparkNotes twitter feed is pretty...

Sometimes watching tv is part of your homework in college. Here are some highlights to what I've been watching this summer, and some...

In light of the fact that technology had not advanced enough to provide indoor plumbing, and medicine had not learned of micro-organisms...

Zombies are a new thing, right? Oh, no.... Here's an interesting post (the author also has a book and podcast) about zombies in the...

So rather than spend my summer reading up on ancient texts, I have been doing some intensive "homework" for class by binging Assassin's...

This article gives an overview of male shoe fashion in the 14th century, specifically the pointy shoe. But what started (hypothetically)...

Check out this brief scholarly essay on one possible reasoning behind the codpiece . . . to conceal STDs of the time. Fashion is not...

Pre-modern history is not just about Europe's culture and its productions. This article finds the current interest in superheroes...

Cultural appropriation is a hotly contested topic in modern society, questioning who uses images of other (or past) cultures and why....

For anyone interested in the culinary arts, there are quite a few pre-modern cookbooks and recipes out there in the world. Measurements...

The devastating fire at Notre Dame cathedral shocked the world, as everyone asked whether or not the monument would be destroyed,...

The first image on the home screen of this website is a picture from the Northern Ireland Game of Thrones Tapestry. This tapestry uses...