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Acknowledgments

T
he most important thank you goes to my parents, Richard and Patricia
Chute, for their unstinting support of my intellectual endeavors and
their constant willingness to talk to me about all aspects of my work.
Marianne DeKoven, Carolyn Williams, and Harriet Davidson made
this book possible. The adage deserves repeating: the good ideas are theirs; the
mistakes mine. I am deeply inspired by each of them, as scholars, teachers, and
people. Their grace, generosity, and perspicacity are a model and a motivating
factor for me in all aspects of my life, professional and otherwise. I am also grate-
ful for the friendship and intellectual support of Richard Dienst, who helped me
develop much of the language that shaped my sense of my own writing. At Rut-
gers, I would also like to thank John McClure and Elin Diamond, from whom I
have learned considerably, as well as Cheryl Robinson and Eileen Faherty.
At the Society of Fellows at Harvard, I wish to express my immense grat-
itude to Diana Morse (thank you also to Amy Parker, Frances Danilkin, and
Kelly Katz). I have benefited hugely from conversations with and the friendship
of Dan Aaron, Greg Nagy, Peter Galison, Jurij Streidter, and Nancy Cott, who
invited me to give the 20072008 Schlesinger Lecture at Radcliffe on the sub-
ject of this book. I am lucky to have had such a rigorously engaged audience at
the University of Chicago when I went to the English Department in January
2009 to talk about Fun Home. The comments and questions I received while at
Chicago profoundly shaped my thinking about chapter 5, and I am grateful in
particular to Bill Brown, Tom Mitchell, Debbie Nelson, Leela Gandhi, and Jan-
ice Knight. I would also like to thank Andy Hoberek for inviting me to speak at
the Post.45 conference at Yale in 2008 and giving me the opportunity to try out
ideas that became a part of the Fun Home chapter.
An enormous thank you to Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, Phoebe Gloeck-
ner, and Aline Kominsky-Crumb for their extraordinary goodwill in allowing

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