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...English department cancels a poetry reading by poet Tom Paulin after over a 100 students and faculty members expressed concerns over Paulin’s anti-Israeli views, but he is reinvited one week later. Chair of the Department of English Lawrence Buell said at the time that there was “widespread concern and regret for the fact that the decision not to hold the event could easily be seen . . . as an unjustified breach of the principle of free speech within the academy...
...Buell said Simpson’s recruitment completed a reconstruction of the department’s offerings in medievalism after the retirement of former Gurney Professor of English Literature Derek A. Pearsall and former Higginson Professor of English Larry D. Benson in the late 1990s...
James Wood, a prominent literary critic and writer for The New Republic, will also be teaching two classes next year. Buell said that the focus this year on recruiting 20th century scholars is part of a conscious effort to modernize the department...
...think it will be a very nice addition to have a figure like Menand, if he accepts the appointment, who is so networked into the contemporary scene of arts and letters.” Buell said. “We don’t think of ourselves as an ivy tower operation, we think of ourselves as serious scholars who want to communicate beyond the academy as well as inside...
...English department has also been expanding its creative writing teaching staff. Poet Peter Richards and novelist Zadie Smith, writer of the acclaimed book White Teeth, will both offer instruction in the creative writing program next year, according to Buell. Novelist Katherine Vaz will fill the position left vacant by current Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction Patricia Powell next year...