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Caleb Smith

Caleb Smith is professor of English and American studies at Yale. His books include The Prison and the American Imagination (2009), The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War (2013), and Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture (2023). His next book project, “The Age of Foucault,” is forthcoming.

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