Word: bercovich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bercovich cited Harvard's committees on History and Literature and History of American Civilization, as well as the English Department, as the sort of "structures which invite the possibility of American culture studies in a kind of long term...
...Bercovich has been a full professor at Columbia since 1970, and he has written two books on Puritan thought and literature as well as numerous articles on that and other aspects of American culture. He said that he planned to teach an undergraduate course covering American Puritanism and Romanticism and a graduate course on Melville--the subject of his current research...
...think that I prefer undergraduate teaching and I would insist on it for myself," said the Canadian-born Bercovich...
...Bercovich said that money had nothing to do with his decision, which he said was solely based on his positive feelings about Harvard...
...Harvard English professor interviewed yesterday said that the Bercovich appointment was part of an ongoing transition in the Department to build a new generation of scholars...