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...genre [bildungsroman] entails much more than that,” Claybaugh wrote. “The genre asks what it means for a young man or woman to take his or her place in society, and so it explores the kinds of compromises and accommodations that society requires...
Amanda J. Claybaugh, an expert from Columbia on 19th-century novels, will join the English and American Literature and Languages Department as a professor next fall, according to a press release from Tuesday...
...Claybaugh, who is currently an associate professor at Columbia University, received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2001 and was a visiting professor at Harvard in 2007 and 2008. Claybaugh—who is currently on leave abroad—said in an e-mail that she was excited by the changes in concentration requirements within the English department, which are moving “away from ‘Brit Lit’ and ‘US Lit’ and toward courses that follow literary works as they cross national boundaries...
While no final decisions regarding class curricula have been made, Claybaugh hopes to teach a survey of the bildungsroman—which translates to “novel of education”—around the world...
...Claybaugh also said that she values challenges from students. “For me, the best moment in a semester comes when the students start arguing with me—I think of it as my responsibility, at the beginning of each course, to establish a useful framework for literary analysis,” she wrote. “Arguing with the framework shows that [students are] really thinking for themselves...