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A Science of the Specific: An Interview with Mary Poovey

A Science of the Specific: An Interview with Mary Poovey Forum by Mischa suter: You research finance with the tools of historical epistemology, a field that has received much attention since the "great recession" after the crash of 2008. However, already several years before the latest crisis you were interested in the epistemology of economics and in finance's characteristic ways of abstraction. As the biography of a scholar is often made of a succession of research problems, can we start biographically? Mary poovey: All my degrees are in english literature and i did my doctoral degree with a dissertation on gothic novels at the end of the eighteenth century. then i got my first job at Yale university, and it turned out they did not want me to teach on the eighteenth or the nineteenth century, so i ended up teaching narrative theory. After a few years, i moved on to swarthmore college where they didn't want me to teach eighteenth-century literature either, so i ended up teaching literary theory for quite a long time. And then i went to two or three other places, but i never quite made my way back to what i had actually been trained in. i eventually wrote a couple of books, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historische Anthropologie de Gruyter

A Science of the Specific: An Interview with Mary Poovey

Arni, Caroline; Suter, Mischa
Historische Anthropologie , Volume 24 (3) – Dec 1, 2016
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Forum by Mischa suter: You research finance with the tools of historical epistemology, a field that has received much attention since the "great recession" after the crash of 2008. However, already several years before the latest crisis you were interested in the epistemology of economics and in finance's characteristic ways of abstraction. As the biography of a scholar is often made of a succession of research problems, can we start biographically? Mary poovey: All my degrees are in english literature and i did my doctoral degree with a dissertation on gothic novels at the end of the eighteenth century. then i got my first job at Yale university, and it turned out they did not want me to teach on the eighteenth or the nineteenth century, so i ended up teaching narrative theory. After a few years, i moved on to swarthmore college where they didn't want me to teach eighteenth-century literature either, so i ended up teaching literary theory for quite a long time. And then i went to two or three other places, but i never quite made my way back to what i had actually been trained in. i eventually wrote a couple of books,

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