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emerita

[ih-mer-i-tuh] / ɪˈmɛr ɪ tə /


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Bethany Brand, a clinical psychologist and professor emerita at Towson University who specializes in trauma and dissociative disorders, describes dissociation as “a kind of disconnection from yourself or your experience.”

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

“The ABCs are very important,” said Teresa Amabile, a professor emerita at Harvard Business School.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Ms. Sampson, a professor emerita of poetry at the University of Roehampton, expertly immerses readers in the cultural and intellectual world that produced one of the greatest practitioners of 19th-century literature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

"Right away, I knew it was something really special," says Voight, curator emerita of invertebrates at the Field Museum in Chicago and the lead author of the study describing the new species.

From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026

No sooner had the "lady," as Byron was pleased to call her, played her part as decoy, than she was discharged as emerita.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge


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