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Alison Dean

Alison Dean
Alison Dean is a lecturer in English Literature and Histories of Photography. Alison has a PhD in English and is an alumna of the Cornell University School for Criticism & Theory and the Whitney Museum of Modern Art Independent Study Program. Her academic research focuses on the politics of portraiture and the portrait’s opposite—images of atrocity and torture. Alison currently trains and competes in kickboxing and boxing. She has a bad habit of dropping her left hand and her best punch is a straight right.


My Boxing is Everything: On Trying to Punch Like Ernest Hemingway

Alison Dean Explores What It Means to Write, Drink, and
Fight to Feel Alive
May 6, 2021  By Alison Dean
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