Emily Ogden
Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia
Emily Ogden is an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, and an author whose work has appeared in Critical Inquiry, The New York Times and American Literature, among others. Her latest book is Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (2018). She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Social psychology
Debunking debunked
Secular modernity requires the weeding out of all the baloney. Yet it’s not clear that we are any less credulous than before
Emily Ogden