Timothy Hampton

Mar 22, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Timothy Hampton |Princeton Press |Lee Trepanier

Today we are bombarded with calls to be happy, optimistic, and the best version of ourselves, whether in popular self-help books or academic studies of human flourishing. One of the threads that connects these works together is the theme of cheerfulness, the state of being noticeably happy and optimistic. But what is cheerfulness and where does it come from? Timothy Hampton, the Aldo Scagione and Marie M.

Dec 4, 2023 | insidehighered.com | Timothy Hampton

When I was in my first semester of study for the Ph.D., I met a famous professor. I was at Princeton University, the only working-class, public university–educated student in my program in comparative literature. I had slipped in through a side door, after some time at the University of Toronto, where I worked on an M.A. until my mentors left for greener pastures and suggested I leave as well.