humanities
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Maiden Aunt Takes Up Expensive, Time-Consuming Hobby
“How did a woman from a small village in Hampshire come to write six of the most beloved novels in the English language?” Humanities seeks to answer that question with a thorough sketch of Jane Austen’s life as she worked…
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Undergrads Beware
An article in the Atlantic discusses the Washington Post’s graph that charts undergraduate degrees and their expected income levels. The Post’s graph seems pretty deterministic (or maybe it just reflects how trendy it is to plot income level against groups…
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On Graduate School in the Humanities
“(W)e must think of graduate school as more like choosing to go to New York to become a painter or deciding to travel to Hollywood to become an actor. Those arts-based careers have always married hope and desperation into a…