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John Durham Peters

John Durham Peters is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and a professor of film and media studies at Yale University. He is coauthor, with the late Kenneth Cmiel, of Promiscuous Knowledge: Image, Information, and Other Truth Games in History, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. icon

Another Mormon Education

By John Durham Peters

The first sentence Tara Westover writes in her engrossing memoir Educated is a disclaimer: “This story is not about Mormonism.” This is true in the same ...

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