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A professor’s book on why utopia means “no place”

CAS English professor Jenny Mann has taught Thomas More’s Utopia for 15 years. Her third book, The Forms of Utopia, comes out on October 27 and reads paradox, labyrinths and recursion as ways of asking how much agency we have.

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  1. Washington Square News: CAS professor Jenny Mann on her upcoming book and Thomas More’s ‘Utopia’ (Sep 23, 2026)
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