Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"People get to know me through my writing (or even bloviating :-) ). Other academics have approached me to ask me to edit their work, give papers at major conferences, and join professional organizations, despite not knowing my RL name at the time. The only thing I can figure is that I have built a reputation under the pseudonym as someone they can trust. My not using my own name seems not to have mattered. I can only hope that it's because I've built up a kind of trust with my readers, in the same way that an author who uses a pen name does.

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"It's not necessarily the names we use, but what we do with them."

-- a_d_medievalist, 2009-01-28