English 190
Research Seminar: Harlem Renaissance
Book List
Cullen, C.: Color; Hughes, L.: Fine Clothes to the Jew; Hurston, Z. N.: Their Eyes Were Watching God; Larsen, N.: Passing; McKay, C.: Harlem Shadows; Toomer, J.: Cane
Other Readings and Media
Other course materials will be made available in PDF format.
Description
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement of black artists and writers in the 1920s. Centered in the Harlem neighborhood in Manhattan, the movement extended outward through international collaboration that reached all the way to Marseilles, Dakar, and Moscow. We will be reading works by writers including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, and Claude McKay as well as contemporary manifestos about the function of black art. Students will complete a long essay (20-25 pages) anticipated by several shorter assignments geared to stages in the writing process.
Please read the paragraph about English 190 on page 2 of the instructions area of this Announcement of Classes for more details about enrolling in or wait-listing for this course.
Spring, 2018
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar
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Langan, Celeste
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: James Joyce
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Flynn, Catherine
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: The Civil War
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Tamarkin, Elisa
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Detective Fiction
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Harlem Renaissance
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Wagner, Bryan
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Sixty Years Since: The Historical Novel
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Kolb, Margaret
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Contemporary Historical Fiction
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Yoon-Milner, Irene
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Literary Theory and Its Objects
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Creasy, CFS
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Edmund Spenser
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Landreth, David
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Pagan Fictions in Christian Literature
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Hobson, Jacob
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar
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Picciotto, Joanna M
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: California Books and Movies Since World War I
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Starr, George A.
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Fall, 2017
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Britain in the ‘60s
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Gang, Joshua
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: The Historical Novel
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Puckett, Kent
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Another Day in Purgatory: Irish Literature and the Afterlife
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Creasy, CFS
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Literature and Revolution
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Lee, Steven S.
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Monsters, Exiles, and Outlaws in Medieval Literature
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Hobson, Jacob
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: George Eliot and the Realist Novel
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Kolb, Margaret
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Historiography and Narrative: Literature and the Interstices of History
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Jones, Donna V.
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Suspicious Mind
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Best, Stephen M.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Nonsense
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Hanson, Kristin
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Making Memories
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Yoon-Milner, Irene
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Spring, 2017
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Literature and the Linguistic Turn
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Blevins, Jeffrey
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Jane Austen and the Theory of the Novel
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Miller, D.A.
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Writing a World in Crisis: Medieval and Modern
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Perry, R. D.
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Shakespeare: From the Globe to the Global
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Bahr, Stephanie M
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Place-Love: Fiction and the Melancholy of Form
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Xin, Wendy Veronica
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Literatures of the Ocean
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Sorensen, Janet
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Beowulf
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Thornbury, Emily V.
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Hollywood in the 1930s
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Knapp, Jeffrey
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: The Literature of Immortality
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Jones, Donna V.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: California Literature & Film Since WWI
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Starr, George A.
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Fall, 2016
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Emily Dickinson
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Slow Seeing / Slow Reading
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Hejinian, Lyn
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Moby-Dick, and More
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Otter, Samuel
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: U.S. Modernism
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Goble, Mark
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Alfred Hitchcock
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Bader, Julia
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: The Medium Is the Message: Reading Poetry in Manuscript & Print, 1300-1600
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Bahr, Stephanie M
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Note new topic: Troy and Tragedy
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Perry, R. D.
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: James / Baldwin
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Best, Stephen M.
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: On Style
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Xin, Wendy Veronica
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Do I Dare? Indecision and Modernist Literature
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Blevins, Jeffrey
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Modern California Literature and Film
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Modern Utopian and Dystopian Literature and Film
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Starr, George A.
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Spring, 2016
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: The Sixties
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Goble, Mark
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Through a Future Darkly: Global Crisis and the Triumph of Dystopia
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Danner, Mark
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Late Henry James
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Contemporary British Literature and Culture
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Falci, Eric
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Classical and Renaissance Drama
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Knapp, Jeffrey
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Materiality: How the Physical World Is Made to Mean
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Flynn, Catherine
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Vital Texts: Literature and the Discourse of Life
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Gaydos, Rebecca
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Medieval and Renaissance Lyric
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Crosson, Chad Gregory
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Purcell and Handel: Their Art in Setting English Texts to Music
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Hanson, Kristin
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar
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Lee, Steven S.
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Daniel Defoe and the Rise of the 18th-Century Novel
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Keats and Literary Tradition
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Francois, Anne-Lise
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Fall, 2015
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Aesthetics and Enlightenment
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Weiner, Joshua J
T. B. A.
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Materialism: Ancient and Modern
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Goldsmith, Steven
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Henry James and Novelistic Aesthetics
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Hale, Dorothy J.
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar
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Blanton, C. D.
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Emily Dickinson
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Ethics and U.S. Fiction
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Serpell, C. Namwali
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Reading Walden
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Ideology
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Gonzalez, Marcial
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Contemporary Native American Fiction
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Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Poetry and Poetics in the Middle Ages
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T. B. A.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Race and Rumors of Race in American Prose
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Giscombe, Cecil S.
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar: Modern Utopian and Dystopian Books and Movies
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/15 |
Research Seminar: Film Noir
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Bader, Julia
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Spring, 2015
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: The Temporality of Faulkner's Novels
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Hale, Dorothy J.
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Metamorphosis, Monsters, and the Supernatural Everyday
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Danner, Mark
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar
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Gardezi, Nilofar
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Materialism--Ancient and Modern
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Goldsmith, Steven
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Literature and Revolution
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Lee, Steven S.
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Toni Morrison
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Shakespeare’s Versification
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Hanson, Kristin
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Mass Entertainment in Classical Hollywood Film
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Knapp, Jeffrey
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Utopian and Dystopian Literature and Film
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Alfred Hitchcock
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Bader, Julia
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: The Oversexed Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
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Miller, D.A.
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