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The English department will welcome two new professors from Columbia University and grant tenure to one of its current associate professors.
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.
The department will also add Martin Puchner, a co-chair of Columbia University’s Ph.D. theater program, and Harvard associate professor of English Stephen L. Burt as full professors, according to English Department Chair James T. Engell ’73.
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...
Puchner’s appointment is part of a long-term effort to strengthen the drama offerings in the English Department, according to Engell.