Liesl Schwabe is a writer, educator, and two-time Fulbright-Nehru Scholar. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders, LitHub, and elsewhere. She currently oversees the Writing Center at Berkshire Community College and will be spending the 2024–25 academic year in Kolkata, India.
Photo by Mathias Reding / Unsplash.comAn American teacher on a Fulbright in Kolkata encounters a surprising flashpoint in a classroom discussion of concrete nouns.
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