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Carswell Professor of American Literature and Languages Sacvan Bercovitch's unexpected leave of absence next semester will make what some call the English department's already slim offerings in American literature even slimmer...
...Bercovitch, who was scheduled to teach English 90md, "American Dissent," and English 170, "Puritanism in America," will take a disability leave for the spring term to receive treatment for a throat tumor, according to Lawrence Buell, Marquand professor of English and chair of the department of English and American Literature and Language...
Buell said he expects Bercovitch to return next fall...
However, not all courses at Harvard reinforce the American mythology. Some criticize it effectively, such as Carswell Professor of English and American Literature and Language Sacvan Bercovitch's Core literature class, aptly titled "The Myth of America," or the Afro-American Studies classes taught by Professor of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel West '74, or Professor of Sociology Christopher Winship's class on poverty. Unfortunately, such perspectives are difficult to find at Harvard. This University will not fully embody its motto, veritas, until it "found[s] Right on righteousness and Truth on the unhampered search for Truth," principles of education...
Phillips says she is very interested in American literary traditions. She cites Carswell Professor of English and American Literature and Language Sacvan Bercovitch's "Myth of America" course, and Powell and Cabot Professor of American Literature Alan Heimert's English 70, as important influences. (She has also been a teaching fellow for both courses.) Other dystopian novels that have interested Phillips include Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, West's The Day of the Locust and Pynchon's The Crying...