If all goes well, by this time next month, I will be Dr. Harding. I started working on my Ph.D. in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in the fall of 2014, and my viva voce is scheduled for May 14. As I work through what I want to do next—having failed, as so many do, to secure academic employment in my first year on the market—I’m thinking a lot about shame, which just happens to be the subject of my dissertation. An excerpt from that, an essay collection called
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