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Bois was lured away from Johns Hopkins, where he taught 20th century art history, to help bolster the modern art division here in Harvard's department.
For his first year at Harvard, Bois is scheduled to teach one class in the fall and two courses in the spring. All three course offerings draw from his own recent research, which is how he likes it, he says. Rather than instructing students on something he has already mastered...
"I like to do seminars on things I am discovering...based in the way I was educated in school," says Bois. "If I am doing something I know already, I'm bored. And if I'm bored, I'm boring."
Bois says the way Barthes, his mentor, taught was to write a book before the eyes of his students. As a student, he saw Barthes' In the Seminar emerging from its earliest stages. "He was very amazing because basically he was writing in front of his students," Bois says. "We...
Bois says he also plans to fully utilize Harvard's numerous museums by organizing classes to attend exhibits. What drew him to Harvard was the potential to work closely with the museums, he says. In the fall, Bois will be teaching a seminar, called Fine Arts 273, "Europe-America: Problems...