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My twin sister Ellen and I were born in Philadelphia in 1963. "Philadelphia" means love of those who come from the same womb (delph-). Translated as "brotherly love", Philadelphia, like its Latinate cousin "fraternity", renders political friendship in familial terms. My early career as a psychoanalytic critic focused in part on the psychic pleasures and costs of philadelphia (as incest and fratricide). At mid career, largely due to my work with public schools, my interests turned to philadelphia as citizenship, but without relinquishing the affective and erotic lining of the word. Along the way, I gave birth to four children, including triplets, who daily test the frontiers of philadelphia in everything they do. In a variety of scenes both strictly academic and more experimental and domestic, I am in search of ways to zone and rezone philadelphia for my students, my readers, my family, and myself. By far the most transformative public work in my academic life was the founding of Humanities Out There (HOT), an educational partnership between the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine and a local, largely Latino school district in nearby Santa Ana. In the spring

Author

Julia Reinhard Lupton

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781444307375