Who’s That Teacher Dissing Kaavya?

The Harvard Independent continues its coverage of Kaavya Viswanathan by deducing the identity of the teaching assistant who described, in a Metafilter posting, how Viswanathan was allegedly a poor writer who fell asleep in class (“as if you don’t notice a snoozing person sitting at a conference table for ten”). The Independent sifted through other postings by “mowglisambo” and has tentatively IDed her as a former Harvard research assistant now at MIT. We say tentatively, but, really, when a post includes somebody’s email address and declares “this is [me],” I think it’s safe to make some conclusions. As well as ask some interesting questions about why a woman with such a Teutonic last name would run around posting to Metafilter as “mowglisambo.”

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