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...typical day in Leo Damrosch's English 10a or 10b class can include his singing songs, reciting poetry and doing impressions of characters' voices. But he wasn't always so sensational in his lectures...
...When I began doing English 10, I did not understand how much Harvard students need performance," says Damrosch, who is the English department chair and has taught at Harvard for seven years. "My teaching style tends to be what people here call 'laid-back'. I realized I had to be more demonstrative...
...Damrosch's dramatic flair could be compared to that of a figure he has studied for an upcoming book, James Naylor. Naylor was a leader of the British Quakers in the 17th century and was anything but austere...
...Harvard process is very, very slow," says Leo Damrosch, chair of the English and American Literature and Language department. "The upshot...is it takes close to two years to get an offer made. All of the humanities are frustrated by that...
...that any piece of the process is bad," Damrosch explains. "It's nobody's fault, but it can be a problem in recruiting...