As a literary scholar, I typically have a lot to say about main characters. It’s ironic, then, that when I became the main character of X for a week, I was left somewhat at a loss for words. The post that nearly 120 million people have seen is entirely innocuous: in it, I hold a hardbound copy of my PhD thesis on “Olfactory... read full story
"Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose"