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...stage. The combination of these factors inspired and challenged Shakespeare, and spurred his writing to be better than it had ever been. Shapiro’s opus comes at a high-water mark for the continuous tide of Shakespeare scholarship. Last year, Stephen J. Greenblatt, who holds the Cogan university chair in the humanities at Harvard, penned “Will in the World,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist. While Greenblatt offers a sweeping portrait of the Bard’s life, Shapiro focuses on Shakespeare in the year that the playwright turned 35. In fact, Shapiro devoted...
...lifetime achievement award before announcing the winners. Damrosch says that at this point, it is a no-lose situation. He jokes, “Whether I win the award or not, I still get to put a gold sticker on my book.” Steven J. Greenblatt, the Cogan university professor of the humanities at Harvard, was a finalist for the award last year for his biography of Shakespeare, “Will in the World.” Another current Harvard scholar, Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson, won the nonfiction award...
...Abdel Jawad, a Palestinian professor of political science, has joined the History Department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, while Mehrangiz Kar, an Iranian human rights activist, journalist, and lawyer, is now a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Cogan University Professor Steven J. Greenblatt, who chairs the Harvard SAR program, said SAR is particularly relevant to Harvard because it is a human rights program that is also based on scholarship. “What’s special about this program—compared to other human rights programs?...
...work is very, very acutely sensitive to aesthetic issues,” Shakespeare scholar Stephen J. Greenblatt, the Cogan University professor at Harvard, said yesterday. “She’s a marvelous close reader of poetry. There are many qualities one would associate Larry Summers with, but an acute aesthetic sensitivity is not the first one that would come to mind...
...Jack is a nostalgia station for Generation X, but it disguises that fact with carefully selected obscure tunes (Walking Away by Information Society, Pop Goes the Weasel by 3rd Bass) that make listeners feel erudite and hip. Then there are the laconic, faux-rebellious promos. On Los Angeles' 93.1 Cogan recently announced, "If you're easily offended, maybe we're not for you." Immediately after which, the robot DJ segued into In a Big Country, a song so inoffensive, it is enjoyed even in small countries...