Megan Ward is associate professor of English at Oregon State University and the author of Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character. Her work on the Victorian antecedents of contemporary culture and politics has appeared in such places as The Atlantic and The Washington Post.

Megan Ward

Right There in Blank and White

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Out of the Glass Case: Museum Heists and Repatriations

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

Megan Ward is associate professor of English at Oregon State University and the author of Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character. Her work on the Victorian antecedents of contemporary culture and politics has appeared in such places as The Atlantic and The Washington Post.