Diana Senechal is the 2011 winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities and the author of Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture (2011) and Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies (out in October 2018). An outspoken, thoughtful, and sometimes satirical cultural critic, she has given talks around the U.S., appeared on radio programs including BBC's The Forum, and delivered a TEDx talk. As a teacher, she led her English-language-learner students in a production of The Wizard of Oz, taught Antigone and other classic works to middle-school students, led the philosophy program at Columbia Secondary School, taught in Istanbul for two weeks as a guest lecturer, serves on the faculty of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture's Sue Rose Summer Institute for Teachers, and now teaches at Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok, Hungary. For more about her work, please see her website (www.dianasenechal.com). Her TEDx Talk, "Take Away the Takeaway," can be viewed on YouTube.