| Abstract | In this introduction to a special issue of Memory Studies comprising essays and reviews by graduate students, Healy and Tumarkin position their work "against an academic apprenticeship model," representing the issue as "a safe haven for the articulation of ideas, sensibilities and narratives that can, sadly, remain thwarted by some of the expectations and protocols that dominate the professional lives of postgraduate students" (3). The editors argue that memory studies is too much in the thrall of "a host of canonical figures" (4) and that the resulting research is deferential, derivative, formulaic.
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