Jane Tompkins is a professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, and more recently, West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

• * The Dream of Authority * P.S. 98 * Foyer * Other People * Teachers * Talking in Class * Higher Education * Making It * Ash Wednesday * The Day I Walked Out of Class * Postcards from the Edge * Reverie * Karate Lesson * Lets Get Lost * The Way We Live Now * Coffee * Time Out * The Cloister and the Heart

Jane Tompkins is a professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, and more recently, West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

• * The Dream of Authority * P.S. 98 * Foyer * Other People * Teachers * Talking in Class * Higher Education * Making It * Ash Wednesday * The Day I Walked Out of Class * Postcards from the Edge * Reverie * Karate Lesson * Lets Get Lost * The Way We Live Now * Coffee * Time Out * The Cloister and the Heart