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...past two years, the only two English professors who focus on the colonial period--Cabot Professor of American Literature Alan E. Heimert '49 and Carswell Professor of English Sacvan Bercovitch--have taken leaves of absence for medical reasons, leaving their courses untaught and students scrambling...
Joseph Goodwin '00, a history and literature concentrator, says he is impressed with the way the English Department has reacted to Bercovitch's absence this spring, in particular...
Goodwin says although he knows some students were counting on taking Bercovitch's course, they understand the unavoidable and unexpected nature of his absence...
...should have left for retirement years ago,"he says, "and Bercovitch will be up for retirementin four or five years. What is the Universitydoing to find a tenured replacement in the area ofcolonial literature...
...Bercovitch, author of four books and editor ofthe Cambridge History of AmericanLiterature, joined the Faculty 16 years agoand has academic interests ranging from colonialAmerica to the 20th-century author Nathaniel Westto modern Jewish literature...