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critiquing and exposing entrenched hierarchies, corruption and sexism. In Death
in a Tenured Position, she investigates the death of the first female Harvard En
glish professor, whose appointment met all-male resistance despite her lack of
feminist credentials. In An Imperfect Spy, Kate guest-teaches at Schuyler Law
School, and investigates the death of the only tenured female professor in this
remaining bastion of male privilege. Not always are the politics of her cases that
clear-cut, however. In one recent short story, “The George Eliot Play,” Kate is
asked by a young female assistant professor to help edit an unkno v