Word: bercovitch
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Next year, after Emerson expert and English Chairman Joel Porte leaves the University to accept a fulltime post at Cornell University next year, the department will have only one full-time Americanist on the faculty. Professor of English Sacvan Bercovitch, who was lured away from Columbia University in 1983, will have to hold down the fort alone next year. Ironically, he came to Harvard saying he hoped to lead a renaissance of the study of American culture...
...Bercovitch was the last senior level Americanist appointed in the department until Visiting Professor of English Phillip Fisher, an expert in 19th and 20th century literature at Brandeis University, received and accepted an offer this year. Porte called this appointment "imperative...
...changing parameters that determine what works of American literature will be considered classics, was moderated by Werner Sollors, professor of American literature and language and of Afro-American Studies. Barbara Johnson, professor of French and comparative literature, Nathan Huggins, DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies and Sacvan Bercovitch, Carswell Professor of English and American Literature and Language also participated in the forum...
Carol Ann Johnston, a third-year English Department graduate student was in her Perkins Hall apartment putting in a contact lens early yesterday morning when the mirror began to shake. At the exact same time across campus, Zoe Bercovitch '87 was doing homework in her Hollis bedroom when the walls started trembling...
...purchased this day's issue of your paper for one of the front-page stories and read with interest "From Radicalism to Puritanism, Sacvan Bercovitch Searches On." I quote: "Like the other radicals of the 1920s, she was riled by the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the famous anarchists who were hanged in Boston for treason during the Red Scare...