Literary Explorations: What the hell is a “strong female character”?

(This is a ramble.  Expect ramble-ness.  Note:  there aren’t many comments on this blog (you can fix that if you like), but some of my Google+ followers opened the flood gates here.) No joke.  We hear about them all the time.  But what do we mean when we say “strong female character”?  I ask this […]

Schedule Changes

If it’s not already obvious, I’ve dropped some of the stuff I planned to write each week, in part because of time constraints.  I figured something like that would happen, since I’m a PhD student who is supposed to doing PhD work.  I may come back to some of those topics again in the future […]