Word: harper
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...Here I have the very strong feeling that there is a rebirth," says Harper, who is an assistant professor in both the Afro-Am and English Departments...
...Philip Brian Harper, starting his new position at Harvard this fall is a homecoming, of sorts...
...Harper, one of four new professors in the recently rejuvenated Afro-American Studies Department, has never actually been a student or teacher at Harvard. But nonetheless he is being reunited with his old mentor and dissertation advisor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., who last spring accepted an offer to chair the Afro-Am Department...
Despite being a bit apprehensive at the high expectations focused on the new group of professors, Harper says he is exhilarated to be surrounded be some of the top scholars of Afro-American literature, including Gates, Werner Sollors, Barbara E. Johnson and K. Anthony Appiah...
...Harper did not have quite as much company at Brandies, where he taught from 1988 until last year and where he was the school's lone Afro-American Literature scholar. "I loved it at Brandies, but be at the end of the last year I was exhausted," he says...