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Todd added that Wolcowitz had asked him and two other former deans of undergraduate education—Ford Professor of the Social Sciences David Pilbeam and Chair of the Department of English and American Literature and Language Lawrence Buell??to speak at yesterday’s meeting...
Because the school of thought is only fourteen years old—a baby in the world of literary movements—it’s future is unclear. But Buell??s current project, a tool-kit for explaining this new vein of literary criticism, looks to codify the movement: focus on some of its main issues, unify its goals and make it accessible to the public. Buell is helping ecocriticism come...
...said, “should be evaluated for the effectiveness with which it presents its ideas and not simply on the basis of the ‘ideas themselves,’ because quality of writing is inseparable from quality of thinking.” Buell??s eloquent prose neatly proves his own point. One tricky task for those serving on the curricular review’s Working Group on Pedagogy under Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen and Cabot Professor of Biology Richard M. Losick, under whose purview this issue falls, will be finding...
...instead of quieting outcry on campus, Buell??s announcement had the opposite effect—pitting proponents of free speech against those who advocated the use of discretion when offering Harvard up as a bully pulpit...
...policy, Kirby failed to set up any kind of coordinative system to prevent the history department’s current predicament from repeating itself more severely—and so English concentrators can look forward to a decimated pool of instructors and thesis advisers. Department Chair Lawrence Buell??s cheery confidence that “a full array of courses” will still be offered next year, despite the absence of nearly half the department’s professors for at least some time, is as unsettling as it is implausible. And though the department should...