Dr. Bailey Shaw, professor of English, has a chapter “‘I’d have my life unbe’: Undoing Experience in Tess of the d’Urbervilles” in the forthcoming book #MeToo and Modernism (Clemson UP, February 2023). Using several canonical authors and texts alongside some lesser-known but nonetheless important writers, the collection combines chapters of literary criticism regarding the foreshadowing implications of the ongoing #MeToo movement during the Modernist era. Professor Shaw’s chapter examines the vexed publication history of Tess and Thomas Hardy’s recurrent alterations to the text in the context of the #MeToo movement. Through the novel’s growing attention to representing Tess’s subjectivity, the “ache of modernism” is painfully revealed through Tess, a “Pure Woman” who is made to suffer in a world without justice.

Sheridan Lane, director, culinary program and operations, wrote this week’s Epicuriosity 101 column on “Modern day tacos.”