Diana Senechal is the author of Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture and is working on her new book, Take Away the Takeaway. She has a BA, MA, and PhD in Russian literature from Yale University. From 2011 to 2016, she helped shape and teach the philosophy program at Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science & Engineering in New York City. She is the 2011 winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, awarded by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. In 2014, her students released the inaugural issue of their philosophy journal, CONTRARIWISE; the fourth issue is now in progress.

Here is a video from the Dallas Institute's 2015 Education Forum.  Also see the video "Hiett Prize Winners Discuss the Future of the Humanities."
 

On April 19–21, 2014, Diana Senechal took part in a discussion of solitude on BBC World Service's programme The Forum.  

On February 22, 2013, Diana Senechal was interviewed by Leah Wescott, editor-in-chief of The Cronk of Higher Education. Here is the podcast.

All blog contents are copyright © Diana Senechal. Anything on this blog may be quoted with proper attribution. Comments are welcome.

This blog, Take Away the Takeaway, has the same title as my TEDx talk and forthcoming book. I discuss culture, education, literature, and other things.

When I revise a piece substantially after posting it, I note this at the end. Minor corrections (e.g., of punctuation and spelling) go unannounced.

Some of the pieces on this blog are satirical and assigned (for clarity) to the blog's satire category. For a full list of my satirical pieces, please see my website.