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...Professor Buckley was one of the world’s most eminent scholars of his generation in the field of Victorian literature and culture,” Lawrence Buell, chair of the Department of English and American Literature and Language, wrote in an e-mail. “He will be remembered with affection and respect as a valued colleague, teacher and friend...
Faculty members are unanimous in trusting New’s professionalism—Department of English Chair Lawrence Buell calls her ability to keep her personal life as separate as possible from her professorial responsibilities “admirably scrupulous.” However, in the words of former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, the “perception of the possibility” of undue influence, access, or conflict of interest cannot be eliminated, and in a tense political climate, trust can only go so far. And even in the absence of any explicit indication of unprofessionalism...
Other members of the department argue that trust has to be earned, and that Summers’ liberties with speaking his own mind make it more difficult for people with opposing viewpoints to express theirs. New’s presence at the table, they say, feels like Big Brother. Buell says that although “Professor New’s presence might restrain conversation about certain topics in certain public situations...any such effect is marginal at most.” But some of his colleagues aren’t so sure. “There?...
...statement published in the Harvard Gazette on Nov. 21, the English department announced that it would renew its invitation to Tom Paulin to give a poetry reading at Harvard. In defending this decision, Harvard College Professor and Cabot Professor of English Lawrence Buell wrote, “the English department affirms its belief in the importance of free speech as a principle and practice in the academy,” adding, “while we in no sense endorse the extreme statements by Mr. Paulin that have occasioned concern in the Harvard community, we support a university environment that...
...take Buell and his colleagues at their word. What should we expect next? A distinguished lecture series in which racism, misogyny, and anti-gay discrimination are wrapped in eloquent, perhaps even persuasive, rhetoric? Are these also merely other “points of view” that could be defended in the name of “diversity” and tolerance? Surely not: speakers espousing such positions would never have been invited in the first place. Are some forms of hate speech more protected than others? Having suspended an unwise invitation, the English department inadvertently made Paulin?...