Julia M. OBrien

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Sep 10
2009

In the First Person

Posted by Julia in scholars , Bible for adults , Bible as literature , autobiography

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There's an interesting article this week in The Chronicle Review about the role of first person in writings in the Humanities.  It's primarily a review of Cynthia Franklin's Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today (University of Georgia Press) and a reiteration of her belief that scholars talking about their own experiences "may help to rehumanize the ailing humanities."

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