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Edward Cahill

Edward Cahill teaches English literature at Fordham University. He is the author of Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States.

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The high school musical that might have saved me: Watching a high school production of “A Chorus Line” in middle age showed me how much I missed

Edward Cahill