reciter is an open-ended forum for eclectic essays in the humanities, orbiting the point of encounter between reader, writer, and text.
It is maintained by me, Matthew Brauer. I am a PhD student in French/Francophone Studies at Northwestern University (although this blog is, of course, my own and not affiliated with Northwestern). I am interested in the different practices of reading and writing that people invoke, particularly as they work to make, preserve, or change history. As a graduate student, I research the aesthetic and political interactions of literature, philosophy, and archaeology in North Africa across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a reader, however, I constantly find myself following threads that take me beyond the necessary grad school business of specialization.
reciter is a space for me to take up those threads, whatever form they take and wherever they may lead: from the contemporary comic book to the ancient Arabic ode, by way of maps, guidebooks, novels, narratives, translations, transliterations, and other tales.
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