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Timothy Brennan

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

Stories by This Author

Portrait of Edward Said, Palestinian writer.
The Review | Essay
Columbia Is at War With the Legacy of Edward Said
By Timothy Brennan April 14, 2025
The university is abandoning its intellectual inheritance.
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.