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Meanwhile, Buell said, Harvard’s search committee had whittled down their “list of several dozen possibilities” to replace retiring Cabot Professor of American Literature Sacvan Bercovitch to a single pair—Menand and one other, whom Buell would not name—who came to Cambridge for talks and interviews this past winter. Menand, he said, was a smashing success...
Lewis said a replacement professor would not be found for "Myth of America," which is normally taught by Carsell Professor of English and American Literature and Language Sacvan Bercovitch...
...Myth," taught by Carsell Professor of English and American Literature and Language Sacvan Bercovitch, was cancelled because of Bercovitch's throat problems...
...Bercovitch said he waited on canceling the class in the hopes that his throat condition would improve, and apologized for the delay. Instead of teaching "Myth," which had an enrollment of about 300 when it was last offered in 1995-96, Bercovitch will be teaching several smaller courses that will not strain his throat...
...defiantly American institution despite its many Oxbridge influences, Harvard is not only part of the lawn-lovin' American Dream, it helps shape it. Emerson's American Scholar address (given in the Yard, perhaps?) and his otheR writings helped define the Dream in its inception. Today, Bercovitch's course The Myth of America analyzes where the Dream went thereafter. The grass is in there somewhere (see Walt Whitman's book of poems,"Leaves of Grass...