...Gray Kochhar-Lindgren The essay traces the genealogy and implications of the emergence of a discourse of ghosts, spectrality, hauntology, and phantoms within the rational machinery of the modern university. Moving across disciplines—including literature, sociology, physics, psychoanalysis...

..., Bothell, where he also serves as director of the Center for University Studies and Programs, which administers the First Year Experience. The author of Narcissus Transformed, Starting Time, and Tech- noLogics, he is currently working on The Night Café and Spectral Aesthetics. Daniel R...

... in the Human Sciences, is assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University. He is the editor of The Pedagogical Wallpa- per: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman s The Yellow Wall-Paper (2003) and Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination (2004) and coeditor of The Nothing...

... in the Human Sciences, is assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University. He is the editor of The Pedagogical Wallpa- per: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman s The Yellow Wall-Paper (2003) and Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination (2004) and coeditor of The Nothing...

... interests include the Gothic from the late eighteenth century to the present, cinema and broadcast cultures in Britain and Ireland, theories of haunting and spectrality, epistemology, landscape studies, and spatial theory. Kelly L. Bezio is associate professor of English at Texas A&M University...

... this same or very similar approach to instruction — and, when things go particularly well, to intuit on some lower level the spectral voice of best practice advocates nodding and saying, “See, it works,” is to teach in ways that essentially run counter to the carnivalized, present-­oriented moment...

....” (As crossing over is also a phrase suggestive of migration, I invite my students to Ng    Reading Asian American Literature through the Gothic  245 think about diasporic identities as spectral, for instance, by considering the ways in which they are often “unseen” and ignored...

... potentially serious medium, paralleled by the more complex aspects of Internet technology mentioned previously. Thus both screens in fact contain a hybrid or spectral range of modes and identities — moving from an intellectually rigorous/politically significant starting point to the much more...

... haunted by a colonial past, the repressed returns (like ghosts), and traces of the legacy of silence, pain, humiliation, and dispossession reappear in spectral figures. Ideologi- cally, it is important not to merely categorize the explorations of the uncon- scious and the supernatural...

... education is inconsistent with the intellectual struggle and creative risk taking that I call generative failure. Instead, failure operates as a source of anxiety, or what one might call the spectral other of success. And as developmental psychologist Peter Gray ( 2013 : 80) explains, anxiety “forces...