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Caroline Breashears

Caroline Breashears is Professor of English at St. Lawrence University. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the "Scandalous Memoir" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Articles by Caroline Breashears


Wilhelm Marstrand-Don Quixote and Sancho Panza at a crossroad

Tilting at the Windmills of ‘Inequity’

May 19, 2021 · Caroline Breashears · Comments Off on Tilting at the Windmills of ‘Inequity’

The fight for “equity” in higher education is a story-driven project. As the Annie E. Casey Foundation explains, “To illuminate racism, we need to ‘name it, frame it and explain … Continue reading “Tilting at the Windmills of ‘Inequity’”

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