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Deborah Aschkenes is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.  After earning her B.A. from NYU, Deborah worked at Saks Fifth Avenue as the Director of Learning and Development.  She received her M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from Columbia University and was awarded the English Department’s Miron Cristo-Loveanu prize for Best Master’s Essay.  Deborah taught Columbia’s essay writing course in the Core Curriculum for two years and then served as a consultant at Columbia’s Writing Center.  Her dissertation project asks how theories about mental imagery influenced the form of description in nineteenth-century novels.