{"id":9520,"date":"2021-12-03T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=9520"},"modified":"2022-07-27T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T17:28:57","slug":"intimate-distances-a-single-studies-approach-to-literary-studies-and-creative-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/intimate-distances-a-single-studies-approach-to-literary-studies-and-creative-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Intimate Distances: A Singles Studies Approach to Literary Studies and Creative Practice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Foulke<br>Thursday, April 7, 12:30 pm<br>Hybrid event<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/9895257406_77408fd824_o-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo with a single figure walking in the distance.\" class=\"wp-image-9535\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent English Ph.D. graduate Elizabeth Foulke will discuss her approach to literary texts through a Singles Studies lens and will share how her own creative writing is informed by this emerging interdisciplinary field. Specifically, Elizabeth\u2019s scholarship and creative practice explore the ways in which singleness shapes narrative patterns both in literature and in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of single people in the Unites States continues to rise, yet there is scant scholarship on singleness. As a result, singleness is often misunderstood and conflated with loneliness and cast as one side of the false binary: partnered\/alone. Elizabeth\u2019s scholarship reframes and reimagines singleness as a mode of being that helps us to recognize the spectrum of emotional closeness and distance that people, regardless of their relationship status, participate in across a range of relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch a recording of Elizabeth&#8217;s talk below.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtube-com\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K2AO2M5krF0&#038;ab_channel=URICenterfortheHumanities\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Intimate Distances: A Single Studies Approach to Literary Studies &amp; Creative Practice&quot;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K2AO2M5krF0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elizabeth Foulke &#8211; Department of English<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bb-past"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10274,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions\/10274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}