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Associate Professor of Classics at UCLA. “Cicero and the Early Latin Poets” (CUP 2022). Fragments; Latin literature and culture, Cicero. She/her.
Jul 31, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
classics and humanities in general often market themselves with the argument that “reading is empathy”; Elaine Castillo’s critique of this line of thinking in “How to Read Now” (just came out) is really spot on I think 1'' Poopie uten say that art bulids our empatiy, Reading. indiversity that are the ones most often prescribed to us as e reminds me of Yaa Gyasi’s forceful critique amp.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar…