My experience at the annual seminar at Centro di Studi Americani in Rome
I summarise my experience at the annual seminar of American Studies at the CSA in Rome.
Henry David Thoreau’s Linguistic Veil
In this post I analyse Thoreau’s metaphor of the veil, asking questions about language, the classics, and the relationship between reader and writer.
U.S. Christianity, Abortion, and the Overturn of Roe v. Wade
I’ll be contributing to a roundtable on the overturn of Roe vs Wade in the U.S.A. See the whole post to download the poster with complete information.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
My first impressions after reading the debut novel by C. Pam Zhang.
My 2023 bullet journal
In this post I briefly overview my 2023 bullet journal setup, including what notebooks I’m using and what I changed compared to 2022.
10 things I learned in 2022
Here are 10 things I learned in 2022, in random order, including stationery, world politics, literature and… Poland.
The Mast-Head is one year old
The Mast-Head turns one. In this post, I look back at this first year of blogging, and reflect on what went well and what didn’t.
Reading in a foreign language
In this post, I explore the main reasons which make reading in a foreign language both useful and enjoyable for me.
Making Kin. Reproductive Justice is Eco-justice.
A few simple thoughts triggered by an event I attended where Donna Haraway and Adele Clarke presented their latest book.
Teaching the unteachable
What do you do when you find yourself in front of a class of teenage students who are completely demotivated? I don’t really know, but in this post I share some questions for reflection.