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The Story of Cruel and Unusual

A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.
 


Her Teaching

 
Listed below is a history of Professor Dayan's teaching experience.
  • Professor, Department of English and Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities; Vanderbilt University, 2004 - Present.
  • Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, 2001 - 2004.
  • Professor, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 2003 - 2004.
  • Core Faculty, Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2002 - 2004.
  • Graduate Group in Folklore, University of Pennsylvania, 2002 - 2004.
  • Graduate Group in History, University of Pennsylvania, 2002 - 2004.
  • Professor, English, University of Arizona, 1992 - 2001; Regents Professor, 1998 - 2001.
  • Visiting Associate Professor, African - American Studies Program, University of Arizona, 1991 - 1992.
  • Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and French, City University of New York Graduate Center, and Queens College, Comparative Literature, 1986 - 1990.
  • Assistant Professor, English, Yale University, 1981 - 1986.
  • Instructor, Romance Languages and Literature, Princeton University, Fall 1980

 


    
 
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