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Welcome to my Literature in America blog. I'm Emily and I teach English at Hogeschool Utrecht in the Netherlands. I'm currently teaching the course Literature in America in the American Studies minor. I have an RMA in Literary Studies and wrote my Master thesis about neoslave narratives, focusing on Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Known World by Edward P. Jones. One of my favorite novels would have to be The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez because of the author's use of imagery in the novel, a use of language which is at times truly breathtaking. Right now, I'm reading Taal is Zeg Maar Echt Mijn Ding by Paulien Cornelisse.