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Great tribute to a wonderful thinker, writer, and teacher. One of my heroes!

Peter Elbow, Professor Who Transformed Freshman Comp, Dies at 89 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/e...
Peter Elbow, Professor Who Transformed Freshman Comp, Dies at 89
His struggles with writer’s block led him to create a process that favored an expressive, personal approach over rigid academic conventions that often stifled students.
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March 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I wrote about defenses of the humanities www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/o...
Opinion | I Teach the Humanities, and I Still Don’t Know What Their Value Is
This seems to be true of a lot of us.
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December 3, 2023 at 4:46 AM
Being in a PhD program is half articulating your thoughts and half having a panic attack over articulating your thoughts.
October 23, 2023 at 1:36 AM