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I’m curious about a select pool of graduate applicants guest lecturing with their writing sample as the assigned reading for…
We did select interviews for a few candidates (lower top 50 PGR program), and while it was time-consuming, we were…
I was a philosophy and classics major at Georgia State and took many of David’s classes (Heidegger, Critical Theory, Marx,…
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As another of the participants in that 1993 NEH summer seminar, I can attest to everything that Richard Galvin says…
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