Bibliotrek

Bib­liotrek may have started with the pun on bib­lio­théque, but this blog is really about my book­ish jour­ney into the unknown. I’m lucky to have a posi­tion as a vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor at a small lib­eral arts col­lege for the 2010-11 school year, and after that, it is a mystery!

Mostly I post about non-academic mat­ters here, specif­i­cally the books I read for fun. In my aca­d­e­mic work, I’m inter­ested in the pop­u­lar cul­ture of early mod­ern Eng­land, and I’m sim­i­larly inter­ested in the pop­u­lar gen­res of our cul­ture: sci­ence fic­tion, fan­tasy, romance, and the var­i­ous gen­res clas­si­fied these days under “young adult.” These gen­res are severely under­rated, in my opin­ion. After all, Shake­speare wrote the pop­u­lar gen­res of his day, too: chron­i­cle his­tory, revenge tragedy, fes­tive com­edy. Intel­li­gent cri­tiques of pop cul­ture never go out of style.

For the FTC: A Note on Book Reviews

Any books I review I have either bought myself or checked out from the library.