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Students representing opposing sides of the ethnic studies debate, two professors, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell and moderator K. Anthony Appiah, professor of Afro-American Studies, participated in the panel. Approximately 125 people attended...
Well-known author Jamaica Kincaid will likely return to Harvard next year as a visiting lecturer for an extended term, Afro-American Studies chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Thursday...
Gates said the English Department and Afro-American Studies Department will probably ask Kincaid to enter into a "multiple-year" contract as a visiting lecturer. She said last year that she was unlikely to ever serve in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences except as a visitor...
Last semester, Kincaid taught Afro-American Studies 132z., "Domestic Life in Literature," and a fiction section of English Car, a creative writing class...
Gates said Kincaid's presence will be another indication of the University's commitment to diversity in its faculty. Yesterday, The Crimson reported that FAS will give tenure to Evelyn Brook Higgenbotham, a scholar of Afro-American religious history at the University of Pennsylvania. As of now, she will be the only Black woman with tenure in FAS when she arrives in fall...