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Articles by Stephanie Malak
A Cosmos of Bodies: On Jazmina Barrera’s “Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes”
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On Colonoscopies and Community: A Pandemic Essay
American butts are exceptional. They must be. It should be no surprise that during a national health emergency, we look so far inside ourselves, remain so deeply individualistic, that we discover our heads up our own derrieres. I certainly did. At a time when spirits are stressed and panic is a button-push away, why is toilet paper the ticket item? Why not canned corn? Or sleeves of sardines?
A Tarot Deck Offers Spiritual Solace to Scholars
The Visionary Futures Collective, also known as the VFC, is fighting for what higher education needs most: a bringing together of thinkers who “believe in the transformational power and vital importance of the humanities.” And it is doing so in unexpected ways, including its most recent project, “Academic Tarot: The Major Arcana.” This isn’t just any tarot deck. The 22 Major Arcana are reinterpreted for academics and public scholars living during the pandemic amidst spiritual havoc.
“We All Have Levers We Can Pull”: Reforming Graduate Education
JULY 22, 2020 IN JANUARY 2020, we attended the Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Seattle. There we convened with a working group — organized by Katina Rogers and Stacy Hartman — of professionals, professors, and graduate students who work across various roles in higher education or adjacent institutions. This piece on humanities doctoral programs that follows was co-written by six working group members.
The oracle in My Dreams: Talking with Cinelle Barnes
I met Cinelle in Portland, OR during the AWP 2019 annual conference where we spoke briefly about the intersection of immigration and the writing life. Her work faces head on questions of place and memory as an immigrant person of color in the US South. ¤ STEPHANIE MALAK: Tell us about the journey of this book, Malaya. How did you approach writing creative nonfiction essays and separating them from your memoir, Monsoon Mansion?
Rewriting the West: A Discussion About the Cultural History of the American “Frontier”
APRIL 6, 2019 “REWRITING THE WEST” IS A PARTNERSHIP between journalist and Soros Equality fellow Michelle García and Guernica magazine. The series is comprised of long-form narrative reports, essays, and public events that analyze the nexus of national identity, race, and the US West.
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