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    Notes on Loving a Mourner
    Paragraph 40 (2): 211-227. 2017.
    This essay examines the place of love in grief, staging a relation between a mourner and her lover. Taking as its point of departure Freud's observation that mourning leads to a ‘loss of the capacity to love’, it considers the effects bereavement might have on the bereaved's relations with those that love them, and the possibilities, pitfalls and ethics of care in such a context. This is explored largely through a reading of Roland Barthes's late work, as well as ideas drawn from Sigmund Freud, …Read more
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    Spectral models for early time SN 2011fe observations
    with E. Baron, P. Hoeflich, B. Friesen, M. Sullivan, E. Hsiao, R. S. Ellis, A. Gal-Yam, P. E. da HowellNugent, I. Dominguez, K. Krisciunas, N. Suntzeff, L. Wang, and R. C. Thomas
    © 2015 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.We use observedUVthrough near-IR spectra to examine whether SN 2011fe can be understood in the framework of Branch-normal Type Ia supernovae and to examine its individual peculiarities. As a benchmark, we use a delayed-detonationmodel with a progenitormetallicity of Z⊙/20. We study the sensitivity of features to variations in progenitor metallicity, the outer density profile, and the distribution…Read more