- William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz was an
associate professor of English atYale University [cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/english/profiles/deresiewicz.html |title=William Deresiewicz: Associate Professor of English |publisher=Yale University |accessdate=2007-07-19] until 2008, and a widely publishedbook review er. His criticism directed at a popular audience appears in "The Nation " [cite web |url=http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/william_deresiewicz |title=William Deresiewicz |publisher=The Nation |work=Author Bios |accessdate=2007-07-19] , "The American Scholar " [cite journal |quotes=no |url=http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su07/love-deresiewicz.html |author=William Deresiewicz |title=Love on Campus |journal=The American Scholar |year=2007] [cite journal |quotes=no |url=http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html |author=William Deresiewicz |title=The Disadvantages of an Elite Education |journal=The American Scholar |year=2008] , the "London Review of Books " [cite web |url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/contribhome.php?get=dere01 |publisher=London Review of Books |title=William Deresiewicz |work=Contributors |accessdate=2007-07-19] , and "The New York Times " [cite web |url=http://www.writingprogram.villanova.edu/concentration/nytimes_grammar.htm |title="You Talkin' to Me?" |author=William Deresiewicz |date=2005-01-09 |publisher=New York Times ] [cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/06/reviews/000806.06deresit.html?_r=1&oref=slogin |author=William Deresiewicz |title=Among The Bad Boys |date=2000-08-06 |publisher=New York Times ] . More often than not controversial, his negative reviews ofTerry Eagleton [cite web |author=William Deresiewicz |title=The Business of Theory |date=2004-01-29 |publisher=The Nation |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040216/deresiewicz] ,Zadie Smith [cite web |author=William Deresiewicz |title=Zadie Smith's Indecision |date=2005-09-15 |publisher=The Nation |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051003/deresiewicz] andRichard Powers [cite web |author=William Deresiewicz |title=Science Fiction |date=2006-09-20 |publisher=The Nation |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/deresiewicz] drew heated reactions [cite web |author=William Deresiewicz |title=Awesome Powers |date=2006-11-21 |publisher=The Nation |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061211/exchange] within the literary community.His academic work "Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets" was published by
Columbia University Press in 2004.Bibliography
* [http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/william_deresiewicz The Nation profile of contributors]
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