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Bridgewater Review Bridgewater Review Volume 36 | Issue 2 Article 1 Nov-2017 Bridgewater Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, November 2017 Recommended Citation Bridgewater State University. (2017). Bridgewater Review. 36(2). Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/br_rev/vol36/iss2/1 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Bridgewater Review WHITE NATIONALISM ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES: IS BRIDGEWATER STATE READY? A VIEW BY CAROLYN PETROSINO Also in this issue: DEREK LEUENBERGER on BENJAMIN CARSON and Percy B. Shelley’s The Cenci interviews JOHN J. WINTERS Book Reviews by LEONID HERETZ’s on his exciting new biography of WARD HEILMAN, Collecting Thoughts Sam Shepard JENIFER SARVER, DAVID TILLINGHAST on Notes on Teaching by JABBAR AL-OBAIDI, and why the BSU Police Department MICHAEL PENZO and by MICHAEL CARSON supports Massachusetts Senate KIMBERLY E. FOX and Bill No. 1305 NORMA J. ANDERSON NovemberVolume 36, 2017 Number 2 November 2017 BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY1 Photo credit: George Rizer Credits for Author Photographs Jabbar Al-Obaidi (by Josh Moulding); Norma Anderson (by Linneah Anderson); Benjamin Carson (by Lori LeComte); Kimberly Fox (by Claudette Agustin); Leonid Heretz (by Eric Weeks); Andrew Holman (by Frank Gorga); Derek Leuenberger (by Kelsey Leuenberger); Carolyn Petrosino (by Gwendolyn Hampton-VanSant); and David Tillinghast (by George Rizer). 2 Bridgewater Review Bridgewater Review Volume 36, Number 2 November 2017 2 Editor’s Notebook EDITOR Andrew C. Holman Andrew C. Holman History & Canadian Studies 4 In the Crosshairs of the White Nationalist Movement: Is Bridgewater State Ready? ASSOCIATE EDITORS Carolyn Petrosino Norma Anderson, Sociology Interim, 2017-18 9 Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Cenci and the Ellen Scheible, English “Pernicious Mistake” of the Regency-era Melodrama On leave, 2017-18 Derek Leuenberger EDITORS EMERITUS 13 Collecting Thoughts Michael Kryzanek Leonid Heretz Political Science & Global Studies 17 Working to Serve and Protect an Immigrant-Friendly Community: William C. Levin Why the Bridgewater State University Police Department Supports Sociology Massachusetts Senate Bill No. 1305 Barbara Apstein David H. Tillinghast, Esq. English 21 Staging a Life: An Interview with John J. Winters Brian Payne Benjamin Carson History 25 TEACHING NOTE DESIGN Bridging the Gap between the Classroom and Business: Philip McCormick’s Design A View from Geology Works, Inc., North Easton, Mass. Michael A. Penzo, PG, CPG, LSP 29 TEACHING NOTE Bring Class Concepts to Life: Implementing Intensive Interview Projects for Deep Learning Kimberly E. Fox and Norma J. Anderson 33 BOOK REVIEWS Has Comfort Made Us Weak? Ward Heilman Wardance, Jenifer Sarver Inspirational Reading, Jabbar Al-Obaidi Why We Do What We Do, Michael Carson On the Front Cover: HATE (iStock). Bridgewater Review is published twice a year by the faculty and librarians of Bridgewater State University. Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policies of Bridgewater Review or Bridgewater State University. Letters to the Editor are encouraged and should be sent to: Editor, Bridgewater Review, [email protected] Articles may be reprinted with permission of the Editor. ©2017, Bridgewater State University ISBN 0892-7634 November 2017 1 writings, including those by Edward Editor’s Notebook Said, Georg Lukács and Sigmund Freud on exile, “homeloss,” transcendental Andrew C. Holman homelessness and other concepts. hen I left this country 18 years ago,” Wood is careful to point out that his loss is not tragic, not in the way it is Englishman, literary critic and for real exiles or refugees torn from Harvard professor James Wood wrote their homes by war, persecution or “W violence. But he stipulates that his loss in a moving piece in the London Review of Books in constitutes something more than base 2014, “I didn’t know how strangely departure would nostalgia for mundane bygones: local obliterate return… I made a large choice a long time accents, smells, flora, or particular brands of chocolate. Leaving, for him, ago that did not resemble a large choice at the time has created a sort of retrospective [and] it has taken years for me to see this.” Wood trauma. Even though none of Wood’s family resides in Durham anymore, to was born near, raised and educated in Durham, “think about home and the departure a cathedral town in northeast England, before from home, about not going home schooling at University of Cambridge and work and no longer feeling able to go home, is to be filled with a remarkable sense in America wrested him away from the familiarities of ‘afterwardness’.” of his boyhood home. His long essay, “On Not I was given Wood’s piece last summer Going Home,” is beautifully written and strewn by a buddy, a fellow Canadian ex-pat through (in the online version) with hyperlinks to from Toronto who, for the past 16 years, has taught Literature in English at music, sounds and images that evoked for him the the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. memory of home. In an effort to make sense of This piece wrought for him, I suspect, that weirdly attractive melancholic his journey, Wood turns to a selection of scholarly feeling that comes with setting down roots abroad and, at the same time, a plausible and rational way to explain it. Wood’s essay is an intensely personal one, but it had a broader purpose, too. It aimed to connect his own life with dominant themes in world literature today. It was also probably meant to resonate with others who have strug- gled to articulate their own changing conceptions of “home.” That’s why it resonated with me. But I am sure I’m not alone. What Wood does not acknowledge (and may not have realized) is just how ubiquitous the experience of departure and loss is among modern academics like him. University faculties are strange poly- glot creatures. At large, metropolitan, research-driven institutions, they have 2 Bridgewater Review been so for some time: massive collec- that each have less in common with as a collectivity, bring a wonderful tions of talented people “from away.” southeastern Massachusetts, one might variety of experiences, learning, world- Indeed, part of the appeal of elite higher argue, than Wood’s elite Durham circle views and pedagogical styles to our education has been the exposure that did with the leafier parts of Cambridge, classrooms and to one another in the students can gain to a world of experts, Mass.). And I would guess that most time we have and the time we make assembled in and imported to their own other departments at BSU have under- for interaction. BSU is the better for communities. The situation has been gone similar transformations. In the it. But on another level, it must also mean that most of us have experience in leaving, losing, and remaking “home,” sometimes more than once. University faculties are strange That we’ve sacrificed something we never anticipated. We inhabit strange polyglot creatures. At large, spaces between our here homes and our homes of old—those places where metropolitan, research-driven our siblings still live and childhood friends retire, where parents move institutions, they have been so house, age too quickly and then pass for some time: massive collections away. The places that are different every time we return, and not ours anymore. of talented people “from away.” To make the point is not to bemoan the situation but merely to observe Indeed, part of the appeal of a condition. It may be, as New York Times columnist Roger Cohen once elite higher education has been observed (“In Search of Home,” 3 the exposure that students can April 2014), that a principal feature of our modern existence is displacement gain to a world of experts, anguish. Modern academics are, to borrow another one of Wood’s terms, assembled in and imported to “homeloose.” It’s a part of the changing complexity of the people who make up their own communities. the community of scholars at places like Bridgewater State. less true at the many public, teaching- past two decades, a glutted job mar- oriented colleges and universities like ket and the university’s wish to fill its ours, or at least until fairly recently. faculty openings through national and When I arrived at Bridgewater State international searches has produced this College in the fall of 1996, only about demographic shift. Today, our BSU half of the members of my department faculty—one colleague who was in a (History) were from out of state (and position to know estimates as much as two of them were from nearby New 80 percent—is a motley collection of York). Twenty-one years later, we are transplants, some from very far away. almost all “leavers” who hail from such What does this mean? It’s hard to far-flung places as Arkansas and west- measure, but there are very positive ern New York, Chicago and Colorado, institutional effects from this change. Los Angeles and Baltimore, Hong As we are fond of saying these days, Kong and southern Ontario (places diversity means richness. Today, we, November 2017 3 tend to view hate crime as something In the Crosshairs of the that occurred in the distant past and was primarily committed by the Ku Klux White Nationalist Movement: Klan. Coming to grips with the fact that hate crime is an ongoing and present Is Bridgewater State Ready? problem is challenging for our students who commonly observe and embrace Carolyn Petrosino inclusion in a diverse social world. But ocial movements often emerge to bring attention recent media reports describe bold acts of racism, anti-Semitism, and other to social problems and to apply sufficient pressure forms of bigotry occurring today on the to affect change.
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