Diana Senechal is an American teacher, author, and translator. She wrote two books of nonfiction, as well as numerous poems, stories, essays, and translations. She taught in New York City public schools for five years before moving to Hungary in 2017 to teach at the Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok.[1]

Senechal received a BA, MA, and PhD from Yale University.[2]

In 2011, Senechal won the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, which is awarded to “an up-and-coming thinker who is recognized as a leader in the humanities”.[3]

Books

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  • Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)[4][5]
  • Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012)[6]

Translations

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  • Winter Dialogue, by Tomas Venclova, poetry translated by Diana Senechal, with a foreword by Joseph Brodsky and a dialogue between the author and Czeslaw Milosz (Northwestern University Press, 1997)[7]
  • Always Different: Poems of Memory, by Gyula Jenei, translated by Diana Senechal (Deep Vellum, 2022)[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2024-03-13. Retrieved 2024-03-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "DR. DIANA SENECHAL". The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Archived from the original on 2022-05-25. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  3. ^ Simek, Peter (17 October 2011). "Dallas Institute Awards $50K Hiett Prize to Diana Senechal". D Magazine. Archived from the original on 17 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies by Diana Senechal". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 2023-01-05. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  5. ^ Livni, Ephrat (November 7, 2018). "A new book argues that the cult of creativity is making us less creative". Quartz. Archived from the original on January 5, 2023. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  6. ^ Schindler, Stella. "Attentive To What Lies Within". Humanum Review. Archived from the original on 2023-01-05. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  7. ^ Scammell, Michael (September 24, 1998). "Loyal Towards Reality". New York Review of Books. Archived from the original on March 16, 2024. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  8. ^ Goodwin, Christie (July 30, 2022). "Unreliable Narrator, Unraveling Time". Hungarian Literature Online. Archived from the original on March 16, 2024. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
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