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Review: Regionalism and the Reading Class

I got this book through recent sale held by the University of Chicago Press. While not a work of academic history (my usual term-time fare), I thought it relevant because of my graduate methods course teaching in which I’ve incorporated … Continue reading

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Three Cleopatras

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes me hungry Where most she satisfies. – Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, Scene 2 I’m working my way through three … Continue reading

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The Ivory Tower’s Basement (A Female Perspective)

Professor X launched a tidal wave of commentary when he published an essay on his dispiriting adjunct experiences in The Atlantic in 2008. I finally got around to reading the book this month and, for the most part, I found … Continue reading

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Well-Behaved Women and History

One of the books that I picked up at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women was Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard faculty member Laurel Thatcher Ulrich‘s Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. Thanks to Random House for making that … Continue reading

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