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• Visit from an old friend [Home Page for Rick Lehtinen]
  On Feb. 5th, we were pleased to welcome the Phi Beta Kappa speaker Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty from Louisiana State University at the College of Wooster. Prosanta is an old friend from our graduate school days at the University of Michigan. He gave two great talks (see below) and it was wonderful to c
• Blog Post #6 [The Gothic Imagination]
  On the very first page of White is for Witching is a description of Miranda buried in the ground, her throat and ears blocked, with the narrator for this segment of the introduction saying that "She chose this as the only way to fight the soucouyant." If this were the first time I had encountered t
• PICA [The Gothic Imagination]
  While researching the history of PICA, I discovered that a form of PICA called geophagia, in which the afflicted person is compelled to eat earthly substances like rocks, soil and clay, was common among enslaved populations in the Americas. It's also commonly seen in populations which are starving
• Unrest in Haiti (White is for Witching) [The Gothic Imagination]
  BBC News - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-19548810?os=icxa75gdubczxcfkgd White is for Witching is set in the early 2000s. It follows the lives of Silver twins Elliot and Miranda and their living haunted house. One of the first things we learn is that their mother, Lily Silver, was