Deanna K. Kreisel is Associate Professor of English at The University of Mississippi, where she teaches and writes about Victorian literature and culture, ecocriticism, and feminist theory. She also writes creative nonfiction in her “spare time.” Her 52 Mini-Essays project is available at doctorwaffle.substack.com (new essays are posted every Sunday). She is Team Cake.
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by Deanna K. Kreisel (Doctor Waffle Blog) A few years ago a brief blog post made the rounds on social media: the blogger had uploaded a photo of a single page of an academic book with the lead-in “This May Be the Best ‘Acknowledgments’ Section of All Time.” The page itself read: I blame all…
by Deanna K. Kreisel (Doctor Waffle Blog) It had been a long time since I thought about lawns. I don’t mean in a grand philosophical sense, or the stoned contemplation of a single blade of grass. I mean thought about them at all. Before moving to Mississippi we had lived in Vancouver for 13 years,…
by Deanna K. Kreisel (doctorwaffle.substack.com) This week I had planned to present the 3 Quarks Daily readership with a fluffy little piece about my memories of a grade school foreign language teacher. It was poignant, it was heartfelt, it was funny (if I do say so myself). Above all, it was intended as a brief…
by Deanna K. Kreisel (doctorwaffle.substack.com) One of the most painful aspects of losing a beloved to death is the feeling that you, and the world, are moving on while they remain forever in a rapidly receding past. I think a lot about how my dear friend Elizabeth will never know that the star of “The…
by Deanna K. Kreisel Now that Americans are emerging, blinking, into the post-pandemic daylight (perhaps temporarily! let’s not get too excited), a certain amount of stock-taking has been taking place. Some of it is braggadocious (languages learned, abdominal muscles honed), some of it is tragic (loved ones lost, livelihoods curtailed), and some of it is…