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Rachael Scarborough King

Rachael Scarborough King

Rachael Scarborough King is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). icon

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