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Ngozi de la Fontaine, D.Litt.

Culture & Conference Catering Editor

De la Fontaine began covering intellectual culture before recognizing that conference catering provides a more reliable map of academic hierarchy. Her ethnography of the invitation-only dinner remains unpublished because everyone quoted in it is now a dean. She attends plenaries when lunch is included.

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