Peter Kerry Powers

Dean of Humanities @MessiahCollege. Interested in Digital Humanities, Higher Ed, U.S. lit and culture, & good writing. Also opera, guitar, cooking and my kids

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“You won't have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians: political solutions to spiritual anxiety.”

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Dissertation titles circa 2050

“Concepts of a plan: executive decision making and eschatological hope.”

“They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats: semiology and gustatory alterity in the 2020s”

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“They're eating the pets of the people who live there: food, hospitality and ideas of community in Middle America.”

“Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man: capitalist ideation and cannibalism as metaphor.”

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The Liberating Arts https://t.co/pGzkFN2WI0

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5 of 5 stars to Transmission by Hari Kunzru https://t.co/hCvpVjvD2p

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5 of 5 stars to Straight Man by Richard Russo https://t.co/yApo11bUvg

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5 of 5 stars to Be Holding by Ross Gay https://t.co/jtj6dZO8GE

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3 of 5 stars to The Ravaged by Norman Reedus https://t.co/ZJvekiSsgp

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5 of 5 stars to Inciting Joy by Ross Gay https://t.co/dG0X7vcb5a

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5 of 5 stars to Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. https://t.co/kjPi6FsMbm

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5 of 5 stars to After Whiteness by Willie James Jennings https://t.co/pW1jVOjCLs

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4 of 5 stars to Taking America Back for God by Andrew L. Whitehead https://t.co/qnbHnHbXeo

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Institutionalizing Public Humanities Projects https://t.co/s2qOvuwWpH

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4 of 5 stars to American Sonnets for My Past and Futu... by Terrance Hayes https://t.co/Bv07Bckf6q

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5 of 5 stars to Pachinko by Min Jin Lee https://t.co/1rjSl8LTac

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4 of 5 stars to On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed https://t.co/rzST3DAJ6C

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5 of 5 stars to Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar https://t.co/Snq3NwIbrI

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On page 50 of 320 of Undocumented, by Dan-el Padilla Peralta https://t.co/xpFTlTrf3T

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5 of 5 stars to Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru https://t.co/pdNr0PQqZA

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4 of 5 stars to Hunger by Roxane Gay https://t.co/F3uGli1t21