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Dunn has been at Harvard for three years and is an associate of Lowell House. He received his Ph.D. in English from Harvard; he studied as an undergraduate at MacMaster's College in Ontario, Canada...
Dunn's specialty is medieval literature of Scotland and Ireland, but his academic capacities are enormous and his interests awesome. At Ontario's MacMasters College, he majored in and English with a Latin-Greek option, but he also managed a full program of chemistry courses. "I was interested in the courses we used to call 'radio-active', which, as you know, have become rather important," Dunn says...
...academic career. "I came to Harvard intending to build up Celtic studies," he says. "Since 1940, when the department was founded, Harvard had only awarded two M.A.'s--and no Ph.D.'s--in Celtic. Everybody interested in the field was asked to do his work in English. Now we have nine Ph.D. candidates working in Celtic studies and we are accepting more...
...claims his contact with the Houses has been limited by his departmental obligations. Yet he is now caught up in interviewing freshmen for Lowell House selections, he is a regular visitor at Lowell, and he lunches weekly at an English table in Quincy. Still he admits a need to learn more about the Houses: "I was invited to live in a House when I was a graduate here," he says. "I can remember which...
...House library is very well stocked, especially in English and American literature. When you walk in, you see oval portraits of the countless generations of Winthrops staring out over the carpeted hush. You can feel free to kick off you shoes when you study there. It's Lamont with a gentlemanly front...