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Before your next reread of the Harry Potter series, read this book! It is guaranteed to guide readers into a deeper understanding of the Harry Potter books' enduring legacy while challenging readers to look at the 'real' world in a more meaningful and critical way.--Karen Wendling, co-coordinator of the Harry Potter Conference at Chestnut Hill College Open at the Close has the potential to shift the currents in literary scholarship and Harry Potter studies alike.--Katy McDaniel, professor at Marietta College and host of the podcast Potterversity

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Cecilia Konchar Farr is professor of English and dean of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts at West Liberty University in West Virginia. Among her publications are The Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit; Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads; and a student-generated collection of essays about the Harry Potter novels, A Wizard of Their Age: Critical Essays from the Harry Potter Generation. She has also taught a magical three-week study abroad in the UK that was all Harry Potter all the time and was, among other roles, assistant headmistress of the Gryffindor Tower Residential Learning Community at St. Catherine University in Minnesota.

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