Category: First Person

The Victory of the Village Voice

Posted by Scott Malcomson | Sep 4, 2018 | Features, First Person | 1 |

The Germans Come Back to Psari

Posted by Bruce Robbins | Aug 28, 2018 | Features, First Person | 0 |

Confessions of a Race Traitor

Posted by James Livingston | Jun 6, 2018 | Features, First Person | 3 |

Literary Academia: Simon During Reflects, Part II

Posted by Simon During | May 31, 2018 | Features, First Person | 0 |

Literary Academia: Simon During Reflects, Part I

Posted by Simon During | May 31, 2018 | Features, First Person | 0 |

Reports from the Picket Line: Columbia Graduate Wo...

Posted by Kate McIntyre | Apr 25, 2018 | Features, First Person, News | 0 |

Backstreet Boys

by James Livingston | Sep 28, 2019 | Commentary, First Person | 0 |

I don’t want to spend a lot of time on campus, nobody does unless they’re a dean of something, and my teaching schedule validates this desire. Being a professor is a pretty cool gig because most of the work you’re expected...

These Streets

by James Livingston | Apr 14, 2019 | First Person | 0 |

I walk these streets thinking of you, as always, I remember what never happened, I’m pitched forward in time, nostalgic For the moments still unplanned. You’re with me as I’m walking, as...

Response to Srinivasan

by Nannu Nobis | Jan 14, 2019 | Features, First Person | 0 |

I frequently recoil at articles about race in the US written by Indians who qualify because of color – hair, skin, and eyes – but little else. Many Indians speak good English, are highly educated (I know it’s a...

Ricky and Jim and Me: On Whiteness

by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan | Jan 9, 2019 | Features, First Person | 0 |

In State College, Pennsylvania, five miles north of the airport, in a stately house on a street that hasn’t quite grown into itself—the trees are like shrubs, which is striking given the wooded expanse one hundred yards away—Jim...

My Neighbors

by Jeffrey J. Williams | Jan 7, 2019 | Features, First Person | 0 |

I live in Squirrel Hill. I moved to Pittsburgh fourteen years ago to take a job as a professor at...

Why I Didn’t Report

by Paige Vaccaro | Sep 29, 2018 | Features, First Person | 0 |

Why I didn’t report. Why I wish I did. Why I would testify… if I saw my attacker was nominated as a Supreme Court Justice. Rutgers University 2001 It was my senior year and I lived off campus with two other...