POSTS | Micah James Goodrich

Review: No Ordinary Man (2020)

A brief review of "No Ordinary Man" (2020)

Finding Westover

I want to give a sense of how I came to the project The Gentle Expert: Jane E. Westover, Barber of Connecticut. Less than thirty minutes...

Apocalypse Pedagogy

When the reality of the pandemic first hit early in 2020, I was teaching a course on Chaucerian adaptation at one of UConn’s branch...

Medical Violence and 'The Miracle of the Black Leg'

Below is a preview of my essay published in Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, an open-access journal that connects topics on...

"Limb" Entry in the Medieval Disability Glossary

Below is my entry for the Medieval Disability Glossary, an open-access resource for students who are interested in premodern disability...

On Not Having the Answer

Originally posted on Medium on Feb. 2nd 2018 I like talking to people who don’t have the answer. Almost all the articles that social...

Why Do We Continue to Normalize 'Imposter Syndrome'?

Originally published on my former blog on April 18, 2017 "If you do not feel like an imposter in graduate school, you probably are one."...

The Myth of Productivity

Originally published on my former blog on April 4, 2017 My dissertation is about images of production and its byproducts in Middle...