Allison Pingree

ALLISON PINGREE received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Harvard. She is Director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, and she lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her daughter Emma.

A Dining Room Table

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 1

If the tapestry that is my intellectual and spiritual life, Eugene Eng land’s influence not only figures as a prominent color, but helps to shape the pattern of the weave itself. Many of the moments…

Brattle Street Elegy: May Many Phoenixes Rise

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 4

Dear friends, I received the news about the fire from Mary Johnston at work Monday morning. After clicking open a few images and reading Steve Rowley’s wonderful tribute, strong waves of grief welled up inside…