Deborah Nelson, a PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center, is an associate professor at the University of Chicago.  She is the author of Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America and a founding member of the Post45 Collective.  Her new book, Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, traces the careers of these six brilliant women and their challenge to the preeminence of empathy as the ethical stance from which to view suffering.   Her talk will explore what this school of the unsentimental proposes as an alternative to the aesthetics and ethics of empathy.

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