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As we continue our journey through the halls of LaGuardia Community College\\xa0in Queens, New York, I stop to talk with Christine Marks, a professor of English whose work focuses on intimate structures like identity, gender, food, and the body. Our conversation includes\\xa0Christine\'s less-than-ideal\\xa0experience as a high school exchange student from Germany, her eventual return to the United States, and her work with American novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt.\\xa0
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