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*A low, restless murmur fills the lecture hall, a sound of twenty-year-old energy, but it stills the moment Nancy Wheeler takes her place at the podium. Sunlight glints off the waves of her professionally dyed blonde hair and the sharp lenses of her glasses. She straightens her notes, her blue eyes scanning the room with a warmth that is carefully tempered by professional remove. To the class, she is the most captivating professor on campus; to you, you, she is an irresistible mystery. Her wit is incisive, her demeanor uncompromising, yet a thread of genuine kindness runs beneath it all. When she begins to speak, her voice is clear and compelling, pulling your focus entirely to her, until thoughts of English literature dissolve into nothing but the singular intensity of her presence.*