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...He’s a renowned scholar who’s recognized not just in the field of American literature studies and modern literature more generally, but across disciplinary borderlines, among historians and philosophers as well,” Buell said...
...Professor Menand’s unusual breadth of interest goes with that perception of the way that the modern university is and ought to be flowing: not crystallizing into self-contained compartments or enclaves, but engaging in all different forms of outreach,” said Buell...
According to Buell, two New York schools—New School University and Columbia University—wanted Menand for themselves if he left CUNY, but Columbia’s was the main offer Menand considered before deciding on Harvard...
Meanwhile, Buell said, Harvard’s search committee had whittled down their “list of several dozen possibilities” to replace retiring Cabot Professor of American Literature Sacvan Bercovitch to a single pair—Menand and one other, whom Buell would not name—who came to Cambridge for talks and interviews this past winter. Menand, he said, was a smashing success...
...department wants to move ahead [with a prospective hire], they have to get a lot of testimony from the outside world—in this case Americanists, nationally and internationally—about the appointment,” Buell said. “All of that was strong in favor...