In this post, I’d like to share with you the story of my career as a close reader. I wonder whether your experience is anything like it. I wonder, too, whether this kind of...
Othello, Act 1, Scene 2, lines 1-27
By the mid-1970s, the job market for PhD’s in English was bleak, so I was lucky to receive an offer from Wellesley College. I had solid...