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Jesse Sheidlower is the world's expert on the F word - and that's an expertise that requires more work than you might think. Sheidlower is editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, and his 270-page book, The F-Word, newly updated and revised, was years in the making. "There aren't that many words that you can write an entire book about, and of those, very, very few of them are ones that you would actually want to read," says Sheidlower. "There's a huge opportunity here as a scholar for something that has been a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writing the Book on the F Word | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...monthly living allowance, insurance, and an additional yearly allowance for books and pertinent materials. The fellowship provides a monthly allowance for a spouse and for each child as well as for the costs of first moving to the Boston area. Most importantly, the Chilean government will also provide English-language training in Chile to prepare students for their study abroad. Bright, hard-working Chilean students from poorer families may lack sufficient competence in English; language instruction is designed to increase the likelihood of more socially egalitarian access to these scholarships and thus to a Harvard degree...

Author: By JORGE I. DOMÍNGUEZ | Title: Investment for the Future | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...High seriousness is the enemy of intelligent thought,” says Robert Joseph “R. J.” Jenkins of his personal teaching philosophy. As the Head Teaching Fellow for the extremely popular English 154: “Literature and Sexuality,” Jenkins is known for his charismatic, candid teaching style, 24-7 availability to his students, and outspoken opposition to the traditional response paper, a commonplace assignment at Harvard which he calls a “soul destroying genre.” Jenkins’ refreshingly irreverent classroom methods have made...

Author: By Nora A. Tufano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: R. J. Jenkins: He can teach you all about sex, primates, and Jake Gyllenhaal | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...native of Palo Alto, Calif., Shaker was a Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator with a secondary field in English...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ariel Shaker, 21, Passes Away | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...meeting, English Professor Elaine Scarry voiced concerns that the degree titles might be too similar to degrees offered by the College and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Science...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Looks To Rename A School | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

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