When case-study writers from Harvard Business School asked Barr to describe the inspiration behind Green Dot's model, he didn't cite other schools; he named the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
For me, this goes against the spirit of studying writers' studies.
"It's like studying writers by studying their use of words, their grammar.
One student commented on the value of studying writers with whom there is no immediate sense of identification or shared belief.
And now, perhaps, it has ridden in on the coattails of the iconoclastic trend in the modern study of fairy tales, with Disney's prettified versions being execrated by feminists and queer-studies writers.
For two decades, Bergler studied writers who suffered from "neurotic inhibitions of productivity," in an attempt to determine why they were unable to create — and what, if anything, could be done about it.
"Under Your Spell" received attention from Buffy studies writers because it presents a frank and unflinching expression of lesbian romance.
New discoveries pertaining to Shakespeare, the most exhaustively, obsessively studied writer in history, are rare.
He spent a year working on science and technology pieces before taking a salaried job as a case-study writer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
According to Andrew Slatter, a design and gender-studies writer from the London University of the Arts: "Today there is a willingness to create and name types, though the media-led ideal and the street reality are often very different.
One Buffy studies writer draws comparisons between Dr. Walsh and Victor Frankenstein, both of whom build monsters out of body parts "to compensate for human vulnerability".
