Big Sid's Shop Class: Running a Motor on the test bed Video

Matthew Biberman writer of nonfiction (memoir), fiction and literary theory

photo credit: Bob Hower

Author Biography

Currently a professor of English at the University of Louisville, I teach and publish on a wide range of literature, most often British Literature from Shakespeare to the Romantics along with contemporary Theory.
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Influences

As a theorist, my biggest influences are my teachers, Stanley Fish and Fred Jameson. As a writer of creative nonfiction, I would name Norman McLean, Robert Pirsig, Ernest Hemingway and Herman Melville.

Favorite Books

Today's desert island list: Shakespeare, Milton, the Romantics--esp Keats and Coleridge, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Hart Crane, Berryman, Lowell, Tom Sleigh. Theorists: Jameson's Political Unconscious, Lacan's Ecrits, Stanley Fish's essays, all Freud, Marx's Grundrisse, Barthes, Foucault, Zizek, Zupancic. Novelists: Flaubert's Sentimental Education, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Fitzgerald's Stories and The Crack Up, Bellow's Humboldt's Gift, Singer's Enemies: A Love Story, Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Roth's The Ghostwriter.

Favorite Authors

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What I'm Reading

Pericles, Charles Nicholl's The Lodger Shakespeare, Alenka Zupancic's Odd One In

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Big Sid's Shop Class: Running a Motor on the test bed

Testing John Felton's motor in the midst of its rebuild. After this test, we would tear down the entire primary and make corrections and improvements. I will post a video soon showing the improvements (basically correcting for excess play in the drive train).