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Joani Etskovitz

Joani Etskovitz is a PhD candidate in English literature at Harvard University. A Beinecke and a Marshall Scholar, she holds two master’s degrees from the University of Oxford. Her writing on the novel genre, children’s literature, and feminism has been published in ELH and Public Books as well as the Los Angeles Review of Books. You can find her on Twitter at @JEtskovitz.

Hurray for Inventing New Genres or Whatever: On Dr. Moiya McTier’s “The Milky Way”

Joani Etskovitz explores the genres at play — from astronomy and mythology to self-help and romance — in Dr. Moiya McTier’s “The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy.”...

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Medicine and Activism in George Eliot’s “Quarry for Middlemarch”

How one of the greatest English novels emerged from research into a disease outbreak....

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Making and Measuring Education at Home: From Maria Edgeworth to the Kid Interrupting Your Attempt to Read These Words

Parents have taken over my newsfeed. University administrators are staking out my inbox. With school districts cancelling in-person instruction and universities wondering when to reopen their campuses, educators are at no loss for words to describe the COVID-19 crisis. What about ...