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...currently lives in New Haven, and de la Durantaye commutes most weekends to be with her. The trek, he claims, is a relatively easy one when compared to their earlier long-distance relationship between Boston and Berlin...
Despite his hippie breeding, de la Durantaye nonetheless learned certain bourgeois sports—like baseball and tennis—from his more traditional grandparents. Although he played baseball seriously, he quit in an “act of weird rebellion” against his father, who had once seriously considered becoming a professional baseball player himself. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Despite his notably youthful looks, de la Durantaye says that his age does not have any significant effect on his relationship with students. “I’m a good deal older than them,” he says, but he admits that he dresses up at the beginning of the semester to clarify his role in the classroom...
...la Durantaye was even closer in age to his students at Cornell, where he says it was difficult to maintain a professional boundary. “You have to fight that temptation and be a little colder, a little sterner than you might otherwise be,” says de la Durantaye...
...real work of attempting to present his material “intriguingly and intelligently,” he says. At that point, every professor, regardless of his age, is equally accountable to his students.CORRECTION: Due to reporting errors, the March 3 magazine profile of English professor Leland de la Durantaye included several factual inaccuracies. First, De la Durantaye contributed articles to The Village Voice but did not hold a formal job with the newspaper, as the article implied. Second, De la Durantaye's family moved to what is today Michigan in the 17th century but did not live there...