The Love Lectures

Inform, protect, connect: facing the crisis in US higher education

My talk on Academic freedom at Leiden University last week

Apr 6 • 

Jessie Morgan

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May 2024

The voice of the sea is seductive

Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)

May 17, 2024 • 

Jessie Morgan

March 2024

I kept on creeping just the same

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)

Mar 22, 2024 • 

Jessie Morgan

Dat truck dah is trash.

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

Mar 16, 2024 • 

Jessie Morgan

What would he do, or rather what ought he to do, in such a crisis of a lifetime?

Part II on "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chestnutt and "Talma Gordon" by Pauline E. Hopkins

Mar 8, 2024 • 

Jessie Morgan

No man is brave enough to face such a situation.

Part I on Pauline E. Hopkins, "Talma Gordon" (1900) with Charles Chestnutt, "The Wife of his Youth" (1898, 1899)

Mar 1, 2024 • 

Jessie Morgan

February 2024

With silent lips.

Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (1883)

Feb 9, 2024 • 

Jessie Morgan

January 2024

Nothing is left but to make the best of a bad bargain.

Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890)

Jan 20, 2024 • 

Jessie Morgan

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster

"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop (1976)

Jan 12, 2024 • 

Jessie Morgan

It’s a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I’ll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

Jan 5, 2024 • 

Jessie Morgan

December 2023

Notes friends tied to the doorknob

"Burning the Old Year" by Naomi Shihab Nye (1995)

Dec 23, 2023 • 

Jessie Morgan

November 2023

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1848)

Nov 25, 2023 • 

Jessie Morgan

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