Alicia A-Z, PhD, she/her Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Alicia A-Z, PhD, she/her

looking forward to the @synapsisjournal’s book launch! join us at 6:15PM EST on Feb 7 to hear about culture & medicine! (I’ll be talking about my article on postpartum exhaustion in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale & now.) #AcademicTwitter https://t.co/005bLpRSgs

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Alicia A-Z, PhD, she/her

@SarahViren @mdbell79 @Ifyouknewthen @RebeccaSolnit The ending of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing will always be one of my favorites—& I second Sula.

Alicia A-Z, PhD, she/her

another student created this gorgeous image of Lorraine Hansberry's set for "A Raisin in the Sun" 🥰(follow her at @danyellysdoodles on insta) https://t.co/BmCNyhTgd1

Alicia A-Z, PhD, she/her

@sarcasmlemons “We know madwomen in William Shakespeare’s plays are mad because nameless, male characters tell us so; we know mad women in Shakespeare’s plays are angry because they tell us so.”

Alicia A-Z, PhD, she/her

what’s a good nonfiction audiobook you read recently? my last few to give a sense of my interests: @tressiemcphd’s “Thick” Pema Chodron “The Wisdom of No Escape” @alexanderchee’s “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel” Dr. Becky’s “@GoodInside” @SaraNAhmed “On Being Included”

Alicia A-Z, PhD, she/her

working on a narrative of my moments of failure as a mother, keeping in mind bell hooks' claim in All About Love: “Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.” this is my goal, the commitment I make in my writing.

Alicia A-Z, PhD, she/her

in that moment, I thought about a line in Gloria Naylor’s novel Mama Day. as it approaches its climactic scene, the titular character tells another, “There are two ways anybody can go when they come to certain roads in life—ain’t about a right way or a wrong way—just two ways.”💜

Alicia A-Z, PhD, she/her

coming online to post some student responses to the devastating opening scenes of @jessaminechan's "School for Good Mothers," the penultimate text in my "Bad Mothers in Literature" class, the novel that inspired me to create the course: https://t.co/sPArMayOuK

Alicia A-Z, PhD, she/her

@jodipicoult @ProfKori I love this; we’re on the same wavelength 💜—check out Toni Morrison’s adaptation of the play, Desdemona, for a female creative’s view of the text! I’m happy to talk with you about it if you decide to read—I think it would be great for your book!

Alicia A-Z, PhD, she/her

From William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, to Octavia Butler’s Dawn, to Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus, to Carmen Maria Machado’s “The Husband Stitch,” we will ask of these literary texts—how is reproduction represented scientifically, culturally, politically, and rhetorically?