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Curriculum Vitae
Education The Writer’s InstituteCUNY Graduate Center, New York, NYCertificate anticipated May 2026 CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Ph.D., English Literature, February 2015; M. Phil., May 2009 Queens College, Flushing, NYPost-Baccalaureate Certification Program in English Education, 2014-2015 City College of New York, New York, NYM.A., English Literature, May 2004 Tufts University, Boston, MAB.F.A., May 1997…
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Lemon Sky and Detritus at Sunrise
I read about hope this morning on Maria Popova’s site The Marginalian. Popova ponders Steinbeck’s observations about hope as a survival effect of humans—Steinbeck calls it a “diagnostic human trait” (qtd. in Popova)—while he was on an expedition studying sea creatures. Nonetheless, as much as Steinbeck acknowledges that “hope cushions the shock of experience” (qtd.…