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...tenure offer from Harvard's English Department a few years ago tore Buell away from his Ohio home...
That probably wouldn't have happened 10years ago. What lured Buell was a relatively recent characteristic of the English Department: change...
...While Buell says he respected Harvard's older English scholars, he saw a new commitment in the department to attract fresh faculty and to experiment with a once-stagnant model...
...cast of characters was both shifting rapidly and it was diversifying in terms of the approaches--the mental universe--of people in the faculty," says Buell, now Harvard's associate dean for undergraduate education. "You're moving from one era to the next, so to speak...
...Buell, a scholar of American transcendentalism, is a part of that new era--as are a host of new professors that have joined the Department of English and American Literature and Language over the past five years...