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Resistance to 'Interdisciplinarity'

Maria Tatar, professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Harvard University and author of Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives (Princeton University Press, 2004):

"Interdisciplinarity," Stanley Fish tells us, is "so very hard to do," and these days -- with the emergence of transdisciplinarity, cross-disciplinarity,...

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