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Item Nat Turner after 9/11: Kyle Baker's Nat Turner(2015) Bruno, TimothyScholars have thoroughly questioned what Nat Turner meant to others in the past; in this article, I question what he means today. Reversing William Andrews's injunction to read “Prophet Nat's” 1831 insurrection through the US's encounter with religio-political terrorism on 9/11, I instead examine the effect September 11th has had on the rebel slave's contemporary afterlife. Ultimately this article asks what cultural work Nat Turner now performs, what his most recent depictions tell us about the racial formations of the present. Drawing on comics theory, I parse the visual rhetoric of Kyle Baker's popular and increasingly studied comic Nat Turner, in which Baker tropes Nat Turner as Christ just as Nat Turner himself did in his Confessions. Baker produces an inviolably iconic black hero, one who is visually antithetical to racist images of “the terrorist" circulating in post-9/11 discourses on national belonging. By doing so, Baker effectively safeguards not only Nat Turner but US "blackness" from Islamophobia during the age of the Global War on Terror. Finally, by reading Baker's comic alongside other recent, unexamined depictions of the rebel slave, this article critically intervenes by updating the archive on Nat Turner and complicating the political possibilities that inhere in other sites of memory.Item Alternate Reality Games as Platforms for Practicing 21st-Century Literacies(International Journal of Learning and Media, 2013) Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Hansen, Derek; Kraus, Kari; Ruppel, MarcItem Book Review of Carmen Lomas Garza by Constance Cortez(Latino Studies, 2011) Ontiveros, RandyThis article reviews Constance Cortez's 2010 monograph on the Texas-based artist Carmen Lomas Garza. It appears in Volume 9, Issue 4 of the journal Latino Studies.Item No Golden Age: Television News and the Chicano Civil Rights Movement(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010-12) Ontiveros, RandyExamines patterns and omissions in television news coverage of the Chicano movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Argues that the networks largely ignored Mexican American activism during these decades, and when they did cover the movement, they tended to represent it not as a complex campaign for equality, but as one of several forces destroying America from within.Item Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use(National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities, 2009-05) Kirschenbaum, Matthew; Farr, Erika; Kraus, Kari; Nelson, Naomi; Peters, Catherine Stollar; Redwine, Gabriela; Reside, DougWhite paper reporting on activity funded by Digital Humanities Initiative Level 1 Start Up funding to support a series of site visits and planning meetings among personnel working with the born-digital components of three significant collections of literary material: the Salman Rushdie papers at Emory University's Woodruff Library, the Michael Joyce Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Deena Larsen Collection at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland.Item Historical Notes on the Tractarian Movement(2006-02-09T20:15:48Z) Oakeley, FrederickThe biographical history of a member of the Oxford Movement who converted to Roman Catholicism.Item S.S. John W. Brown, Baltimore's Living Liberty(Project Liberty Ship, 1991) Cooper, SherodThis work gives a brief history of the Liberty ship John W. Brown from its launch in 1942 through 1991. The ship's seagoing years were from 1942 to 1946 and then the ship served as a maritime high school in New York City from 1946 to 1982. Project Liberty Ship acquired the John W. Brown in 1983. Since 1991, she has been an operational museum ship moored in Baltimore, Maryland.