Hannah Zeavin is an Assistant Professor of Informatics at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the coordinated histories of technology and human relationships. Zeavin is the author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press, 2021) and is at work on her second book, Mother’s Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (forthcoming from MIT Press). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Bookforum, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Review of Books, n+1, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of Parapraxis, a new magazine of psychoanalysis.
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“One of the things that is interesting about Keats’ letters to Fanny Brawne is that you can’t infer a damn thing that’s happened between them.”
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