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On December 1, 1946, sophomore Bennington College student Paula Jean Welden vanished. Her disappearance remains an unsolved mystery. Today it feels especially important to say her name.

I'm currently working on a book project that involves the Welden case. I'll post more soon, but for a (very brief!) preview, here's a video of my talk “Missing Students and Their Fictional Afterlives: #TrueCrime, #CrimeFiction, and #DarkAcademia," which I gave earlier this year at the Popular Culture Research Network’s “Guilty Pleasures: Examining #Crime in #PopularCulture” conference.

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