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...considered a prominent but controversial contributor to Afro-American studies and his work is generally centered around African and African-American literary criticism and history, cultural studies and literary theory. His works include Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992) and The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (1988). He has also written Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the ‘Racial’ Self (1987), and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997). Gates was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 1981, and was included...

Author: By Stephanie T. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Gates To Give Prestigious Lecture | 1/7/2002 | See Source »

Gates appointment to the lectureship comes at a trying time for the Afro-American Studies department at Harvard. Rumors have circulated that Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 has been considering leaving Harvard for Princeton after a meeting with University President Lawrence H. Summers earlier this fall...

Author: By Stephanie T. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Gates To Give Prestigious Lecture | 1/7/2002 | See Source »

...conflict between University President Lawrence H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 has been resolved, according to senior members of the Afro-American Studies department...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers, West Conflict Close To Resolution | 1/7/2002 | See Source »

...have a distinguished group of colleagues in Afro-American Studies at Harvard—no wonder Princeton would like it,” Knowles said. “The President and I will certainly want to avoid any southern migration of our splendid Faculty...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers, West Conflict Close To Resolution | 1/7/2002 | See Source »

President of the Black Students Association Brandon A. Gayle ’03 said Thursday that he would be “extremely disappointed” if any of the senior Faculty members of the Afro-American Studies department left Harvard, especially West...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers, West Conflict Close To Resolution | 1/7/2002 | See Source »

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