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throatybeard
04-14-2009, 03:45 PM
Sedgwick was one of Stanley's Fish's early hires when he was taking the department to national prominence in the 1980s.

Obit (http://blog.shankbone.org/2009/04/13/eve-kosofsky-sedgwick-58-prominent-writer-dies-of-cancer/)

Duke Prof/Administrator Cathy Davidson's remembrance (http://www.hastac.org/node/2081)
throatybeard
04-15-2009, 11:19 AM
Wow, not many college professors get an obit in the NY Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/arts/15sedgwick.html?_r=1&hpw
Bluedog
04-15-2009, 01:03 PM
Wow, not many college professors get an obit in the NY Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/arts/15sedgwick.html?_r=1&hpw


In 1988, Stanley Fish, who was transforming the English department at Duke University into a center of the new trends in criticism, recruited Ms. Sedgwick to Chapel Hill, where she taught for the next 10 years.

Uh, the head of the Duke English department recruited her to teach at UNC?!?! :eek: ;)
TheRose77
04-15-2009, 05:43 PM
Uh, the head of the Duke English department recruited her to teach at UNC?!?! :eek: ;)
I expect that the NY Times will print a correction in tomorrow's paper. I saw the Chapel Hill refrence in the hard copy this morning and almost choked.