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AU Events: Developing Your Research Series

At times, it can be difficult to find a sense of community in the AU digital sphere.  However, there are a great deal of events occurring on a consistent basis.  These range from style guide tips for assignments to research tips and tricks. This Voice Magazine writer recently had a chance to attend a new… Read more »

Beyond Literary Landscapes—Latin America Gothic

From my early beginnings as a young introvert, the public library has always been a bit of a refuge.  Years later, not much has changed, albeit with an additional affinity for endless hours spent scouring second-hand bookstores to add to my ever-growing “to-read” pile. From one bookworm to another, this column will be underscoring and… Read more »

Fly on the Wall—Taylor Swift and Antonio Gramsci

A baseline finding of social science is that we are not only independent producers of our consciousness, we’re also literally subjected to reams of external and coercive influences.  Even when we imagine another possible world, a better one, our forms of thought come from the prevailing circus of our culture.  The raw reality that we… Read more »

Inside AU Events—Developing Your Research Series

At times, it can be difficult to find a sense of community in the AU digital sphere.  However, there are a great deal of events occurring on a consistent basis.  These range from style guide tips for assignments to research tips and tricks. This Voice Magazine writer recently had a chance to attend a new… Read more »

Inside AU Events: Developing Your Research Series

At times, it can be difficult to find a sense of community in AU’s digital sphere.  However, there are a great deal of events occurring on a consistent basis.  These range from style guide tips for assignments to research tips and tricks. This Voice Magazine writer recently had a chance to attend an AU research-focused… Read more »

Fly on the Wall—Sounds, Sounds, A Society of Sounds

Every cognitive absence contains the presence of our mind; rushing floodwaters of thought gush into our awareness whenever a vacuum prevails.  Sounds illustrate the social world of me and you.  While the bucolic sound of silence contains a certain valour, most everything that we humans enjoy emits some sort of, if you will, auditory odour. … Read more »

Beyond Literary Landscapes—Literary Settings: Hotels and Motels

From my early beginnings as a young introvert, the public library has always been a bit of a refuge.  Years later, not much has changed, albeit with an additional affinity for endless hours spent scouring second-hand bookstores to add to my ever-growing “to-read” pile. From one bookworm to another, this column will be underscoring and… Read more »

Cities in Six: Angra do Heroismo, Portugal

To launch this series, in which I’ll try to give a flavour of various cities I’ve visited using only six photos each, I’m starting with one of my favourite cities: Angra do Heroismo (“Angra” for short.) If you’ve never heard of Angra, you’re not alone. Angra sits on the island of Terceira, in the nine-island… Read more »