Amy E. Vidor, PhD
  • About Me
    • Awards
    • Conferences
    • Education
    • Organizations
  • Experience
  • Teaching
    • Beginning French
    • British Literature
    • Rhetoric and Composition
    • Rhetoric of Women in Dystopia
    • World Literature
  • Writing
    • Attention, Please!
    • Can We Ever Kill the Author?
    • Diagnosis-Narrative
    • Don’t Judge a Book by the Author
    • Food for Thought, Episode 1
    • Food For Thought, Episode 2
    • Food for Thought, Episode 3
    • From Page to the Big Screen
    • International Women’s History: The Convoy of 31000
    • International Women’s History: A Storm in June, Ep. 2
    • International Women’s History: A Happy Feminist, Ep. 3
    • The Last Laugh
    • Mark My Words
    • Nevermore
    • The Public Work of Interpretation
    • Presidential Politicking: Who Puts Those Words in the Candidates’ Mouths?
    • Scrooge: The Christmas Capitalist
    • Two Authors–One Literary Spar
    • Whose Idea Is It Anyway?
    • Why on earth did working-class German men dress like this to attend political rallies in 1928?
    • What on earth do an anarchist protest, a Thanksgiving-day parade, and a seamstress have in common?
    • What on earth do Beyoncé, this sphinx, and Napoléon have in common?
    • What on earth do these mannequins have to do with Persepolis?
    • What on earth does this 18th-century bad boy have to do with Jane Austen?
    • Where on earth is the oldest library in the world?
    • Why on earth did American feminists move to Russia in the 1920s?
    • Why on earth is an English suffragette’s grave in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia?
    • Why on earth is there a statue of a black African saint in a cathedral in Germany?
    • What on earth were these tropical primates doing in Southern California?
    • Why on earth would someone preserve this drawing in a research library?
Thinking in Public  /  July 16, 2018
by amyvidor

Why on earth would someone preserve this drawing in a research library?

At first glance, this cowboy comic seems like it belongs on a refrigerator, not preserved in a research library. This is no ordinary eight-year-old’s picture. The creator was none other than Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2016 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Known for complex novels about the

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Death & Numbers, Podcasts  /  July 3, 2018
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International Women’s History: The Convoy of 31000, Episode 1

In this episode of Death and Numbers, part of a series on international women’s history, Amy Vidor and Caroline Barta talk about author and activist Charlotte Delbo. Read more: Be sure to read Delbo’s Convoy to Auschwitz (English translation) Caroline Moorehead wrote about Delbo’s convoy

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Death & Numbers, Podcasts  /  July 3, 2018
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Food for Thought, Episode 3

In this special three-part series from Death and Numbers, we’re cracking open cookbooks and archival records to learn about the bond between food and text.  The final episode uses the recipe collection to represent the sometimes haphazard, but often meaningful associations created around our closest

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Death & Numbers, Podcasts  /  July 3, 2018
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International Women’s History: A Storm in June, Episode 2

In this episode of Death and Numbers, part of a series on international women’s history, Amy Vidor and Caroline Barta talk about author Irène Némirovsky. Read more: To see some of Némirovsky’s works, go to http://www.mjhnyc.org/irene/ Read Suite française by Irène Némirovsky and Le Mirador  by Elisabeth

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Death & Numbers, Podcasts  /  July 3, 2018
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International Women’s History: A Happy Feminist, Episode 3

In this episode of Death and Numbers, part of a series for International Women’s Day, Amy Vidor and Caroline Barta talk about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Read more: Gift a copy of We Should All Be Feminists to all your friends! The entirety of Adichie’s TEDxEuston

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Thinking in Public  /  July 3, 2018
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Why on earth is there a statue of a black African saint in a cathedral in Germany?

This article features the research of Dr. Geraldine Heng, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Imagine you’re a white, Christian pilgrim traveling in eastern Germany during the 13th century. You arrive at the Magdeburg Cathedral and kneel in

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Thinking in Public  /  July 3, 2018
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What on earth do Beyoncé, this sphinx, and Napoléon have in common?

They’re all featured in “Apeshit”–a music video dropped this past weekend during Beyoncé and JAY-Z Carter’s tour. The video introduced fans to Everything is Love, a collaborative album celebrating black identity and fame in 2018 America. “Apeshit” was filmed inside the Louvre museum in front of statutes like

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Thinking in Public  /  June 7, 2018
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Why on earth is an English suffragette’s grave in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia?

Sylvia Pankhurst, Born Manchester 5 May 1882, Died Addis Ababa 27 September 1960 In front of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia lies the grave of Sylvia Pankhurst, one of the most famous English suffragettes. At 74, Pankhurst moved to Ethiopia at the

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Death & Numbers, Podcasts  /  February 7, 2018
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Food For Thought, Episode 2

In this special three-part series from Death & Numbers, we’re cracking open cookbooks and archival records to learn about the bond between food and text. Our second episode breaks down how technology influences food writing and criticism by focusing on the effect of visual-based technology.

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Death & Numbers, Podcasts  /  January 31, 2018
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Food for Thought, Episode 1

In this special three-part series of Death & Numbers, we’re cracking open cookbooks and archival records to learn about the bond between food and text. In this first episode, we pair a largely forgotten 17th century French cookbook with Julia Child’s classic cookbook Mastering the Art of

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