Hello there. I am Lianne Habinek.
Likely best known to you as “professor habinek.” (At least, that is how I have been signing my emails. I think it strikes a pleasant balance between professionalism and a kind of insouciance.)
I am currently an Assistant Professor of Literature at the utterly lovely Bard College.
My PhD comes from Columbia University, in – as they are fond of saying – the City of New York.
I’ve got an MPhil from a King’s College, Cambridge (and also a superfluous MPhil from Columbia), and two SB’s from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Those are Bachelor’s in Science. They reverse the “b” and the “s” so it…well, you know.
I have one Bachelor’s in the Science of Neuroscience (technically “Brain and Cognitive Sciences,” known colloquially as “Course 9″), while the other is in the Science of Literature. The Science of Literature (“Course 21-L”).
The title of this blog is taken from John Donne’s poem The Ecstasy.
The image at the top is from Helkiah Crooke’s 1615 anatomical text, the Mikrokosmographia. Not enough people read Crooke. Go read Crooke.
Special thanks to Rob Funderburk, who did this sketch:
You can contact me at:
liannehabinek [at] gmail [dot] com
