Open AccessCavell as Mentor
Author(s) -
Sianne Ngai
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
conversations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-6169
DOI - 10.18192/cjcs.vi7.4289
Subject(s) - gratitude , period (music) , psychoanalysis , psychology , classics , art , social psychology , aesthetics
I was a Grad student in English at Harvard in the mid-90s, but physically there for just three years, anxious to move to Brooklyn for a relationship as soon as I became ABD. In that brief but intense period of time, I tried to take as many courses offered by Stanley Cavell as possible. In my last year, I asked him to be a member of my dissertation committee. Looking back I’m still flooded with gratitude (and astonishment) by the fact that he said yes.