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PAUL db WATKINS

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      • 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
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Spring 2020

ENGL 115: The Importance of Language and Stories in Our Lives

ENGL 280: Literature on Trial: Banned or Challenged Books

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I’m putting two classics that need no real introduction—both from Nirvana—into listener preferences for this #vinylbattleWednesday (hosted by @vinylwife). ℕ𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕕 is, of course, completely seminal to grunge, while 𝕀𝕟 𝕌𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕠 is more abrasive, but an excellent and uncompromising follow-up. Do you have a favourite between the two? It’s another #fortyfiveFriday. I’m spinning the limited 50th anniversary 7” mix (2024) of Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn.” Highway driving music, 50+ years on. A seven-year hiatus between albums, followed by a trip to Shangri-La to work with the legendary Rick Rubin, did wonders for The Strokes and their Grammy-winning album, 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝔸𝕓𝕟𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕝. It’s arguably their best album after Is This It. The cover features the 1981 painting Bird on Money by Jean-Michel Basquiat, a tribute to jazz musician Charlie Parker. On my wall, you’ll also notice Basquiat’s Charles the First (1982), which shares a similar colour palette. Before your favourite rapper’s favourite rapper was MF DOOM, he was Zev Love X of #KMD. I picked up this OG pressing of Mr. Hood (1991) when I was in Japan last year. “After Martin Luther King got killed, I wanted to write a song.” Some songs remain urgent—pressing—at once of the past and of this moment: a polemic against the impetus and apparatus of the imperial boomerang; a didactic message against oppression, apartheid, division, and hate; a tearing through the veneer of evil and empire by way of the power of song. Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” is one of those songs. There have been lots of posts this week rightly honouring David Bowie (who was born on January 8 and left the planet on January 10), but today I want to draw attention to what might be my favourite interpretation of his work and one that also serves as a beautiful tribute to the Starman: 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕃𝕚𝕗𝕖 𝔸𝕢𝕦𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠 𝕊𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝔽𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕊𝕖𝕦 𝕁𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕖. Yep—today and every day. Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C. have been one of my favourite bands of the last five years. Recently, I picked up 𝕊𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕪 𝔽𝕚𝕒, and it is arguably as good as—maybe even better than—ℝ𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖. Hopping in on this #vinylbattlewednesday to see if others have a favourite between these two bangers.

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