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Harvard's Afro-Am department has only one permanent faculty member, a small pool of prospective junior professors, and an increasingly frustrated student body. And while administrators engage in a mad scramble to find professors to staff the moribund department, one young scholar has stepped in to help keep Afro-American studies alive during rough times...
...Terada only received her Ph.D. from Boston University last year. But Terada, who is in the middle of a one-year appointment as lecturer in Afro-Am, has earned the respect of her Harvard colleagues and students with both her scholarship and her teaching skills...
This year at Harvard, Terada teaches Afro-Am's junior humanities tutorial, a task which allows her to share with students her expertise in Carribean post-colonial poetry. Terada takes a particular interest in the work of Carribean poet Derek Walcott, and espouses a multicultural approach to the study of North and South American literature. In fact, Terada is a poet herself, applying her scholarly work to the creative process...
Barbara Johnson, the chair of Harvard's Afro-Am department, says that as the leader of the junior humanities tutorial in Afro-Am, Terada has been "very devoted to the students." Johnson also speaks highly of Terada's scholarship...
This fall a group of Afro-Am concentrators, ina demonstration of frustration at the state oftheir department, occupied University Hallover-night, while a larger group staged protestsoutside. The department currently has only onetenured faculty member, who will be on leave nextsemester...