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Ellen O'Connell Whittet

Ellen O'Connell Whittet
Ellen O’Connell Whittet is the author of What You Become in Flight (Melville House 2020), a memoir of ballet and injury. Her writing has appeared in Buzzfeed, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Vulture, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at UC Santa Barbara. You can find her on Twitter at @oconnellwhittet.


On Marina Abramović and the Radical Notion of the Third Act

Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Long Life of Art
June 25, 2025  By Ellen O'Connell Whittet
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When Threats of Violence Come to University Libraries

Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Impact of Bomb Threats and the Rhetoric of School Shooters
September 11, 2024  By Ellen O'Connell Whittet
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Invisible Women: On the Victorian Custom of Cutting Mothers Out of Portraits

Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Photographic Evidence of Maternal Erasure
May 10, 2024  By Ellen O'Connell Whittet
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How Shirley Hughes Captured the Everyday Magic of Childhood

Ellen O'Connell Whittet on the Beloved Children's Author
April 6, 2022  By Ellen O'Connell Whittet
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Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Ellen O’Connell Whittet on Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat
August 26, 2021  By Ellen O'Connell Whittet
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Writing and Parenting in the Pandemic Blur of
Day to Day Life

Ellen O'Connell Whittet on Incidental Writing
November 23, 2020  By Ellen O'Connell Whittet
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When I Could No Longer Dance, I Found Comfort in Books

Ellen O'Connell Whittet on Living (and Reading) with Chronic Pain
April 29, 2020  By Ellen O'Connell Whittet
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Remembering Editor Judith Jones

Editing Updike, Julia Child, and saving The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile
August 4, 2017  By Ellen O'Connell Whittet
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