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Christy Wampole

Christy Wampole

Christy Wampole is an essayist and an associate professor of French at Princeton University. She has published three books: Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France (Columbia University Press, 2020), Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and The Other Serious: Essays for the New American Generation (HarperCollins, 2015). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Aeon Magazine, French Forum, MLN, Modern Language Review, and other publications. icon

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Dirty Essays, Clean Essays

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Recently translated essay collections underscore how sanitized ethical language has become in the last 60 to 70 years.

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