Jenny Davidson
American literary scholar and novelist; professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, writing on eighteenth-century literature; author of Reading Style, Breeding and Heredity.
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People should not be told they are resilient while they are still in the thick of a crisis.
Their wordsdon't tell people they're resilient while they're still in the thick of crisis
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Their wordsI consider it the normal responsibility of those who are in a position to undertake it
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Their wordsI can never concentrate at home and at the computer, I need pen or pencil and lined paper at a cafe table!
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Their wordsI worry about the pronounced trend whereby faculty workload always increases without there being anything that gives
↗"Dinosaurs in the Hood"jennydavidson.blogspot.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsDanez Smith's Black Movie is one of the most galvanizing and beautiful and tragic and angry books of poems I have ever read
↗"Dinosaurs in the Hood"jennydavidson.blogspot.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsMos Def's album Black on Both Sides is essential listening for my generation, and if you don't know it, you should.
↗"Dinosaurs in the Hood"jennydavidson.blogspot.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWhat a waste of time and attention that could be purposed to genuine intellectual or administrative work, actually LISTENING to a student, etc.
↗Small things that are plaguing mejennydavidson.blogspot.com
- 18 months earlier
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Their wordsRichardson has brilliantly conveyed the moment-by-moment consciousness of a young woman under constant threat from the sexual predator who employs her.