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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...