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Cathy N. Davidson

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Cathy N. Davidson served from 1998 until 2006 as the first Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University, where she worked with faculty to help create many programs, including the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the program in Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS). She is the co-founder of Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, HASTAC (haystack), a network of innovators dedicated to new forms of learning for the digital age. She is also co-director of the $2 million annual HASTAC/John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. She has published more than twenty books, including Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory (with photograph...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 1,612 ratings · 209 reviews · 29 distinct works

	36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan 3.92 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn 3.84 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America 3.62 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age by Cathy N. Davidson, David Theo Goldberg 3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Reading in America: Literature and Social History 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	The Book of Love: Writers and their Love Letters 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States by Cathy N. Davidson, Linda Wagner-Martin (Editor), Elizabeth Ammons (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	No More Separate Spheres!: A Next Wave American Studies Reader by Cathy N. Davidson, Jessamyn Hatcher (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Lost Tradition: Mothers and Daughters in Literature by Cathy N. Davidson, E.M. Broner 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from <I>Oroonoko</I> to Anita Hill by Cathy N. Davidson, Michael Moon (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995	My rating:

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“I began to wonder if writers don’t choose to love long-distance, a sure way of blending passion and prose. The love letter seems perfectly suited to the contradiction of a writer’s life... the love letter may be the emblem of a vocation that demands solitude but desires communication.”
― Cathy N. Davidson

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