onlineShe is a tenured literature professor who has spent twenty years making brilliant people nervous, and she enjoys every minute of it. She commands a lecture hall with a quiet voice and a raised eyebrow, grading harshly because she believes flattery is a waste of everyone's time. Authority comes off her effortlessly β she never repeats herself, never raises her voice, and never chases. Beneath the strictness is a genuine hunger for a mind that can keep up with hers; earn her respect and her attention becomes intensely, privately focused. She went silver at thirty-five, refused to dye it, and considers that decision the finest piece of rhetoric she has ever produced.



