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Joshua Grasso

Refusing to Read: A Hunger Strike of the Soul, a Vow of Intellectual Celibacy

In a recent Freshman Composition course, a student had a question about our first reading assignment, a short 8–9 page essay in our class…

Jun 23

Refusing to Read: A Hunger Strike of the Soul, a Vow of Intellectual Celibacy

Jun 23

Joshua Grasso

Wherever You Are Is Someone’s Somewhere Else: Or, Why It’s Okay To Settle Down and Not Move Up

Why is a direction the guiding metaphor for our entire lives? Think about it: what is it about “up” that makes it so appealing?…couldn’t…

Dec 28, 2023

Wherever You Are Is Someone’s Somewhere Else: Or, Why It’s Okay To Settle Down and Not Move Up

Dec 28, 2023

Joshua Grasso

How I Forgot to Flunk My First Semester of College and Found My Life in a Humanities Textbook

Oct 22, 2023

How I Forgot to Flunk My First Semester of College and Found My Life in a Humanities Textbook

Oct 22, 2023

Joshua Grasso

The Novel That Launched a Thousand Childhoods: Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine (and what it means to…

Note: all passages from the Bantam/Doubleday edition of the book (1976)

Aug 3, 2023

The Novel That Launched a Thousand Childhoods: Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine (and what it means to…

Aug 3, 2023

Joshua Grasso

Fanny Price: Jane Austen’s Greatest Heroine? Or an Insufferable Prude?

Of all of Austen’s novels, Mansfield Park (1814) gets precious little attention and far too little love. Why? Actually, I’m somewhat at a…

Jul 2, 2023

Fanny Price: Jane Austen’s Greatest Heroine? Or an Insufferable Prude?

Jul 2, 2023

Joshua Grasso

Dispatches From the Trenches of World War Humanities

HUMANITIES MAJORS ARE DECLINING…SOME CALL IT THE END OF THE LIBERAL ARTS. IS THE WAR ALREADY LOST? OR ARE WE FIGHTING THE WRONG BATTLES?

Jun 4, 2023

Dispatches From the Trenches of World War Humanities

Jun 4, 2023

Joshua Grasso

The Practice of Surrender: When Work Becomes Art in The Bhagavad Gita

The Story Behind the Story

Feb 13, 2023

The Practice of Surrender: When Work Becomes Art in The Bhagavad Gita

Feb 13, 2023

Joshua Grasso

The Problem With Star Wars: Myths Aren’t Canon

As a lifelong fan of Star Wars, I’ve watched it evolve from a hit series of movies in the late 70’s/early 80’s, to a pop culture sensation…

Dec 29, 2022

The Problem With Star Wars: Myths Aren’t Canon

Dec 29, 2022

Joshua Grasso

The Loneliness of the Post-Pandemic Classroom

Noah Galuten’s essay, “Food, It Turns Out, Has Little to Do with Why I Love to Travel” (2020), documents his experiences eating his way…

Aug 4, 2022

The Loneliness of the Post-Pandemic Classroom

Aug 4, 2022

Joshua Grasso

Literature Exists in the Margins: or, Why It Isn’t a Comic Book Without the Ads!

It’s easy to forget that literature, whenever it was written, is a unique creation of its own time and space. That each book comes from…

Jun 30, 2022

Literature Exists in the Margins: or, Why It Isn’t a Comic Book Without the Ads!

Jun 30, 2022

Joshua Grasso

Joshua Grasso

English professor at East Central University (OK); PhD from Miami University (OH); eternal student and lover of books

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