Maria Bose

Maria Bose is an assistant professor of media and cultural studies at Clemson University. She is currently completing “Cinema’s Hegemony,” a study of cinema’s primacy to an unfolding phase of Asia-led global political economy, and beginning a new project on cinematic video games. She serves as treasurer on the board of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.

Maria Bose

Reviews

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

“I brought you a metaphor,” quips a character named “Fragile,” as she hands Death Stranding’s protagonist, Sam Porter Bridges, a golden mask that resembles a human skull. Fragile is inheritor and chief executive of Fragile Express, a shipping company tasked with delivering supplies to human survivors of a cataclysmic event—the eponymous “Death Stranding”—that eradicated huge […]

Winter 2021

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Global Poetics: Reactive and Relational (on Jahan Ramazani’s Poetry in a Global Age; Walt...

on In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale

on Of Course by Catherine Wagner

on The Silence by Don DeLillo

Silk Poetics (on Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems and Aditi Machado’s Emporium and The End)

Winter 2021

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Global Poetics: Reactive and Relational (on Jahan Ramazani’s Poetry in a Global Age; Walt...

on In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale

on Of Course by Catherine Wagner

on The Silence by Don DeLillo

Silk Poetics (on Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems and Aditi Machado’s Emporium and The End)

Winter 2021

Maria Bose

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

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Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...