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...four new professors in the recently rejuvenated Afro-American Studies Department, has never actually been a student or teacher at Harvard. But nonetheless he is being reunited with his old mentor and dissertation advisor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., who last spring accepted an offer to chair the Afro-Am Department...
...Here, I have the very strong feeling that there is a rebirth," says Harper, who is an assistant professor in both the Afro-Am and English Departments...
...extraordinary teacher. He succeeded in making Afro-Am a major interest with our undergraduates in only three years," says Micheal Gilmore, a professor of English and American literature at Brandeis. "He is the best young African-Americanist in the country...
This fall, Harper will teach a junior tutorial in Afro-Am as well as an English course on Anglo-American modernism from 1890 to 1930. Next semester he will teach an Afro-Am course on the literature of the 1920's and English 90vt, "Social Marginality and Postmodern Culture," a subject which is the focus of his doctoral dissertation and forthcoming book...
After overseeing what has been billed as the rebirth of Afro-American Studies and helping Harvard land Duke University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Afro-Am Chair Barbara E. Johnson this year agreed to assume the chair of the Women's Studies Department next year...