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Aaron Bady, English Department Ph.D. student in African literature

Aaron Bady

Aaron Bady is a Ph.D. student in African literature in UC Berkeley’s English Department. As the author of the Zunguzungu blog, he writes about literature, film, the "crisis" in higher education and a wide range of issues ranging from Julian Assange and WikiLeaks to Joseph Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness," the late U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke and journalistic muckraking.

Posts by Aaron Bady

7-25-12Arts, Culture & Humanities: What's on your mind?A breather
5-3-12Politics & Law: What's on your mind?A snapshot of your security-industrial complex
4-16-12Arts, Culture & Humanities: What's on your mind?The privileged white men of Treme, and their hard-working others
3-19-12Arts, Culture & Humanities: What's on your mind?The Jimmy McNulty gambit
2-28-12Politics & Law: What's on your mind?Santorum’s gift
1-30-12Politics & Law: What's on your mind?Stenography journalism, Oakland edition
1-2-12Politics & Law: What's on your mind?Nation of they
10-28-11Politics & Law: What's on your mind?Why Quan’s got to go
9-20-11Politics & Law: What's on your mind?Representing the West Bank: A note on maps
9-14-11Politics & Law: What's on your mind?Remember, when they say ‘austerity,’ substitute ‘priorities’
7-6-11Arts, Culture & HumanitiesArts, Culture & Humanities: What's on your mind?Ernest Hemingway in Theodore Roosevelt’s Africa
6-1-11Arts, Culture & Humanities: What's on your mind?Education and the path to riches
5-24-11Business & Economics: What's on your mind?Finance capital is very sexy, don’t you think?
5-17-11Arts, Culture & Humanities: What's on your mind?Some thoughts on Bridesmaids, and the Bridesmaids thing
5-13-11Politics & Law: What's on your mind?Rationally In-Exuberant about Public Higher Ed
5-2-11Other Subjects: What's on your mind?Bin Laden’s code name was “Geronimo”
4-27-11Other Subjects: What's on your mind?Reckoning with Blindness: Mau Mau and Guantánamo
4-12-11Energy & Environment: What's on your mind?God-willing, and the creeks don’t rise
3-23-11Politics & Law: What's on your mind?On Libya: “I celebrate this uncertainty”
2-25-11Politics & Law: What's on your mind?WikiLeaks spinoffs?
2-15-11Politics & Law: What's on your mind?Is Bahrain a Shiite uprising?
2-12-11Politics & Law: What's on your mind?Everywhere Tahrir
2-8-11Politics & Law: What's on your mind?A blogpost I would write if I weren’t busy prepping for teaching and grading papers
1-28-11Politics & Law: What's on your mind?Egypt: Those tear-gas canisters say “Made in U.S.A.”
1-19-11Politics & Law: What's on your mind?Tunisia and the so-called ‘Twitter Revolution’
12-16-10Science & Technology: What's on your mind?Julian Assange and the computer conspiracy “to destroy this invisible government”