Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English, Vanderbilt, is the author of Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe’s Fiction; Haiti, History, and the Gods; The Story of Cruel and Unusual; and, most recently, The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, selected as a top-25 Outstanding Academic Book of 2011 and issued in paperback in March 2013. She was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Colin Dayan
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Into the Crud
How can a book transform how we think about the human? It is one thing to claim for oneself, as does a character in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, a dispossession so thorough that she lives with “No cards, no weapons, no property, no rights, no dignity,” prompting her father to add, “like a dog.” It […]
