August 3, 2007

Eros in the Classroom

Whatever happened to the bumbling, socially awkward college professor? Our popular-culture landscape used to be littered with that character — think Professors Ned Brainard in The Absent-Minded Professor or John Nerdelbaum Frink Jr. from The Simpsons. But according to William Deresiewicz, a different pattern entirely emerges from recent movies about academics. In films like The Squid and the Whale, Wonder Boys, We Don't Live Here Anymore, and Little Miss Sunshine, academics are

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