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Emily Hodgson Anderson

Emily Hodgson Anderson
Emily Hodgson Anderson is professor of English and Dornsife College Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Southern California. She is the author of two books of literary criticism, and her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Air/Light, and LitHub. She lives in Los Angeles with her two young boys and one old dog.


How Loneliness and Companionship Can Impact a Writer’s Creative Life

Emily Hodgson Anderson: “What I realized in retrospect was how this personal trajectory... is one I live through, in microcosm, every time I write.”
March 5, 2025  By Emily Hodgson Anderson
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The (un)Lonely Reader: On the Pleasure of Finding Community in a Book

Emily Hodgson Anderson Considers the Connective Power of Reading
June 3, 2024  By Emily Hodgson Anderson
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Can We Talk About How Austen’s Characters Tend to Blur Together?

Emily Hodgson Anderson on Jane and Jane and Jane
March 18, 2020  By Emily Hodgson Anderson
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