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Timothy Brennan

Timothy Brennan is a professor in the humanities at the University of Minnesota.

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  • Derrida
    The Review | Essay

    What Was Deconstruction?

    By Timothy Brennan June 3, 2022
    Academics fell for Derrida’s charisma, but his school of thought wasn’t what we thought it was.
  • Born in Jerusalem in 1935 as a Palestinian Christian, in the 1950s Edward Said moved to the United States to attend college. He is now a professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University ( 1980), and a leading political commentator and advocate of the Palestinian cause. (Photo by Sophie Bassouls/Sygma via Getty Images)<br/>
    The Review

    The Making of Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’

    By Timothy Brennan March 19, 2021
    How an unlikely best seller spawned academic feuds, global fame, entire subfields, and its author’s ambivalence.
  • The Digital-Humanities Bust 1
    The Review

    The Digital-Humanities Bust

    By Timothy Brennan October 15, 2017
    After a decade of investment and hype, what has the field accomplished? Not much.
  • The Review

    Left, Right, and Muddle

    By Timothy Brennan June 9, 2006
    The problem with Gitlin’s perspective is that he doesn’t do nuance.