I worked two “jobs” during my first summer as a graduate student in Indiana. One involved telemarketing research, convincing people to answer telephone ...
Katherine J. Anderson
Katherine J. Anderson is an assistant professor of English at Western Washington University, where she teaches Victorian literature and culture. She is currently at work on a book entitled “Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain.” 
The Banality of Empire
One of the basic paradoxes of British imperialism is that even as it relied so fundamentally on violence, it insisted on presenting itself as opposed to violence, indeed as dedicated to stamping it ...