

Plus, I was a Medieval Modernist, which is not a field rife with brown people, and yet I was expected to the expert on all things brown.” After a pause, she added, “Which I still am.” Depp has been working her whole life, starting in retail and moving through customer service jobs as well as working as a set and costume designer. “I love teaching, I love research, but I was very frustrated with academia publishing over helping students. Even as COVID hit and she was faced with an overnight transition to an entirely online business model, talking about and selling books is what continued to get her up in the morning.ĭepp made the switch to bookselling after being an academic for many years. Throughout my conversation with Hannah Oliver Depp, the owner of Loyalty Books, a store with locations in Washington, DC and Silver Spring, MD, this is what she kept returning to. “Bookselling is the combination of everything I’ve ever loved.” Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Women.
