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PAUL db WATKINS

PAUL db WATKINS

  • TEACHING
    • Courses
      • Spring 2026
        • FILM 201: Film Studies (Genre)
        • ENGL 394 (S26N01): Twin Peaks: Its Influence & Quality TV
        • ENGL 396: Adapting and Being Human in an Inhuman World
      • Fall 2025
        • ENGL 115 (F25N13): Navigating a Storied World
        • FILM 101: Introduction to Film Studies (Fall 25)
      • Fall 2024
        • FILM 101: Introduction to Film Studies
        • ENGL 390: GRAPHIC MEMOIR
      • Spring 2024
        • FILM 201: Film Studies
        • ENGL 392: Sound & Remix
      • Fall 2023
        • Film 101: Introduction to Film Studies
      • Spring 2023
        • FILM 220 (S23N01): “Pure Cinema,” Voyeurism, and Cinematic Influence
        • ENGL 330: Possible futures: Resistance & Reimagining in Speculative Fiction
      • 2018-2022
        • Spring 2022
          • ENGL 125 (S22W03) AT THE CROSSROADS: MUSIC, LITERATURE, & POPULAR CULTURE
          • ENGL 125 (S22N05) AT THE CROSSROADS: MUSIC, LITERATURE, & POPULAR CULTURE
          • ENGL 398 (S22N01): “Pure Cinema,” Voyeurism, and Cinematic Influence
          • ENGL 332: Topics in Indigenous Literatures (S22N01)
        • Fall 2021
          • ENGL 115 (F21N06): THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE AND STORIES IN OUR LIVES
          • ENGL 115 (F21N17): THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE AND STORIES IN OUR LIVES
        • Spring 2021
          • FILM 220 (S21N01): “Pure Cinema,” Voyeurism, and Cinematic Influence
          • ENGL 332: Topics in Indigenous Literatures (S21N01)
        • Fall 2020
          • ENGL 115 (F20D02): THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE AND STORIES IN OUR LIVES
          • ENGL 115 (F20N29): THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE AND STORIES IN OUR LIVES
          • ENGL 125 AT THE CROSSROADS: MUSIC, LITERATURE, & POPULAR CULTURE
        • Spring 2020
          • ENGL 115 (S20D01): The Importance of Language and Stories in Our Lives
          • ENGL 280 (S20N01): Literature on Trial: Banned or Challenged Books
        • Fall 2019
          • Film 101: Introduction to Film Studies
          • ENGL 394 (F19N01): Twin Peaks: Its Influence & Quality TV
        • Spring 2019
          • ENGL 115 (S19D01): The Importance of Language and Stories in Our Lives
          • ENGL 220 (S19N01): CanLit Now!
          • ENGL 398 (S19N01): Film Studies: Voyeurism, Representation, and Cinematic Influence
        • Fall 2018
          • Film 101: Introduction to Film Studies
          • ENGL 231: Possible futures: Resistance & Reimagining in Speculative Fiction
        • Spring 2018
          • ENGL 115 (S18D01): Language and Stories
          • ENGL 135 (S18N02): Literature and Criticism: Graphic Novels
          • ENGL 396: Literature and Film
      • 2013-2017
        • Spring 2017
          • ENGL 332: Topics in Indigenous Literatures
          • ENGL 115 (S17D50): After Eden
        • Fall 2017
          • ENGL 115 (F17N13): Language and Stories
          • ENGL 125 (F17N05): (Un)Settling BC: Robinson, Compton, and Kogawa
          • ENGL 390 (TOPICS IN WORD & IMAGE): GRAPHIC MEMOIR
        • Fall 2016
          • ENGL 115 (F16N02): AFTER EDEN
          • ENGL 125 (F16N04): Other Canadas / Canada’s Others: King, Edugyan, and Kogawa
          • ENGL 125 (F16N08): Other Canadas / Canada’s Others: King, Edugyan, and Kogawa
        • Summer 2016
          • ENGL 125 (F16N04): Other Canadas / Canada’s Others: King, Edugyan, and Kogawa
        • Spring 2016
          • ENGL 115 (S16D50): After Eden
          • ENGL 390 (Topics in Word & Image): Transformations
        • Fall 2015
          • ENGL 115 (F15N17/ N20): THE MYTH OF PROGRESS
          • ENGL 115 (F15N31): THE MYTH OF PROGRESS
          • ENGL 135 (F15N01): Jazz and Social Change
        • Summer 2015
          • ENGL 115 (M15N73): THE MYTH OF PROGRESS
          • ENGL 125 (J15N70): Voice in Text: “Interfusional” Writing, Myth, and Culture
          • ENGL 125 (J15N71): Voice in Text: “Interfusional” Writing, Myth, and Culture
        • Spring 2015
          • ENGL 115 (S15D50): STORIES, IDENTITY, AND PROGRESS
          • ENGL 115 (S15D01): STORIES, IDENTITY, AND PROGRESS
          • ENGL 125 (S15D02): Voice in Text: “Interfusional” Writing, Myth, and Culture
        • Fall 2014
          • ENGL 115 (F14N08): WRITING AND REMIXING A LIFE
          • ENGL 115 (F14N09): THE MIX: HIP-HOP PEDAGOGY, TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS, AND UNIVERSITY WRITING
          • ENGL 135 (F14N02): SONIC AFRO-MODERNITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
        • ENGL 2130: Literature and Social Change
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Today’s #WHMVinylChallenge (hosted by @vinylettes) is focused on jazz, and in collaboration with @discogs, I wanted to draw attention to three trailblazers: Mary Lou Williams, Alice Coltrane, and Dorothy Ashby. The collective impact of these three women is immeasurable. While much of the attention for women in jazz is often placed on singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone (all truly excellent), instrumentalists often take a backseat in public attention. Daft Punk’s 𝔻𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 turns 25 today (released on March 12)! It’s full of smash hits like “One More Time” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” a commentary on the drive for progress and efficiency, with its robotic refrain echoing the pressures of productivity and enhancement in modern life. Yet over time nearly every track, now playing, “Veridis Quo,” needles its way into that rhythmic part of your soul. Is this album their magnum opus? For today’s “Classical Music” category for the #WHMVinylChallenge, hosted by @vinylettes with @discogs, I’ve selected the phenomenal cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Her version of Elgar’s Cello Concerto is deeply moving. “The earth cannot move without music. The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops, the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.” I’m back with another post for #WHMVinylChallenge, hosted by @vinylettes and @discogs, and today’s theme is Mellow Gold co-hosted by @christinavinylphile for #mellowgoldMondays. Friday mood: Sleaford Mods’ 𝔻𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝔼𝕩𝕚𝕥. Not everyone’s cup of tea (not that music ever has to be), but if you dig post-punk, gritty spoken word, and working-class perspectives, give them a listen. One of my favourite singers—the great Miss Jill Scott—returns after an 11-year hiatus with a stunner of an album. It moves between genres with ease, including R&B, hip-hop, neo-soul, and jazz, and speaks truths with unapologetic verve. It’s my “new obsession” and my choice for today’s #WHMVinylChallenge, hosted by @vinylettes and @discogs. Master of Puppets turns 40 today! ✞ Do you have this one on wax, and what’s your favourite track? Lately, I’ve bookended my days with poetry: usually more politically minded work in the morning, and then before bed I alternate between Mary Oliver and Leonard Cohen. It helps to set these intentions: activated and then contemplative. Those pulses aren’t always so neatly demarcated, but it helps to have a general rhythm, especially in how I start and end my day (and away from my phone). I’ve read Cohen before, although hardly all his work, and, of course, I’ve listened to his music a fair amount. His first three albums—Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), Songs from a Room (1969), and Songs of Love and Hate (1971)—are cornerstones of folk, bending poetry into song and song into poetry. Perfect for a Sunday.

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