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I first met David as an undergraduate at Oxford. I had stepped into a graduate seminar and haltingly asked my…
I had the privilege of learning of David and his work very recently. Still, this has been my most impressionable…
I did not have any personal acquaintance with David Charles, but through his writings he did more than anyone else…
When, as a nervous graduate student, I found my way into a small conference of senior scholars, David found out…
Very sad news. I had the opportunity to get to know David during a series of workshops on the Parva…
I will always hold onto this image of David: sitting cross-legged in his study at Oriel College, Oxford, with a…
Here. This part of the interview made me laugh out loud:
Job market horror stories?
No horror stories, unless you count being yelled at for the stupidity of my ideas by one interviewer, having another fall into my lap, asleep, and having yet another progressively incline in his chair until he, too, fell asleep—and in his case, he was the only interviewer in the room. So no, definitely no horror stories.
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