Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean
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Full Name and Common Aliases
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Michelle Dean is a renowned Canadian author, critic, and editor.
Birth and Death Dates
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Michelle Dean was born on December 31, 1980. There is no information available on her date of death.
Nationality and Profession(s)
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Dean is a Canadian citizen by birth, and she works as an author, critic, and editor.
Early Life and Background
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Michelle Dean grew up in a family that valued education and literature. Her parents encouraged her to read widely and think critically from a young age. This early exposure had a profound impact on her future career choices. Dean's interest in writing developed during high school, where she began writing short stories and poetry.
She went on to study English Literature at the University of British Columbia, where she honed her critical thinking skills and developed a passion for feminist theory. After completing her undergraduate degree, Dean pursued a Master's degree in Journalism from New York University.
Major Accomplishments
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Michelle Dean is best known for her work as an editor and critic. In 2014, she was appointed as the editor of the online literary magazine The Awl. Under her leadership, the publication gained international recognition for its innovative approach to storytelling and its commitment to feminist critique.
Dean's writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar. Her book Sharp: The Women Who Made Irrationality a Science, published in 2018, explores the lives of women who have made significant contributions to the field of feminist philosophy.
Notable Works or Actions
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Editor of The Awl (2014-2019)
Author of Sharp: The Women Who Made Irrationality a Science (2018)
* Regular contributor to The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar
Impact and Legacy
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Michelle Dean has had a profound impact on the literary world through her work as an editor, critic, and author. Her commitment to feminist critique has inspired a new generation of writers and thinkers. Dean's writing is known for its incisive analysis and its ability to make complex ideas accessible to a broad audience.
Why They Are Widely Quoted or Remembered
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Michelle Dean is widely quoted and remembered for her insightful commentary on the intersection of literature, philosophy, and feminism. Her work has been praised for its intellectual rigor and its commitment to social justice. As a leading voice in contemporary literary criticism, Dean's ideas continue to shape the way we think about art, culture, and society.
Dean's influence extends beyond the literary world. Her writing on feminist theory and irrationality has resonated with scholars and thinkers across disciplines. As a result, she is widely regarded as one of the most important critics and thinkers of her generation.
Quotes by Michelle Dean
Indeed, there has never been any sort of organised movement of people who take their cats into the outdoors. Of course, the navy often took them on ships, but there they performed a function, mousing for the officers.
It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all.
There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.
We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.
Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language.
The phenomenon of Instagram poets - who are also, to be fair, Tumblr poets and Pinterest poets - has been one of the more surprising side-effects of the selfie age.
The Festival of Books is indeed a well-oiled machine, one which leaves most of the other literary festivals in America, including vaunted Brooklyn's, in the dust.
A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.
Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity.