Word: harper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harper's most recent published articles and research have dealt extensively with popular culture, music and television, interests the junior professor discovered through his study of literature...
...have always had that interest [in popular culture], but I did not know how to address it in an intellectual capacity until I had studied literature," Harper says...
...superb presence. It is a terrific loss," Goodheart says of Harper's departure from Brandeis. "He was a very successful teacher from the very beginning...
This fall, Harper will teach a junior tutorial in Afro-Am as well as an English course on Anglo-American modernism from 1890 to 1930. Next semester he will teach an Afro-Am course on the literature of the 1920's and English 90vt, "Social Marginality and Postmodern Culture," a subject which is the focus of his doctoral dissertation and forthcoming book...
...Harper believes that the characters of postmodern literature, with its fragmented and disoriented personalities, are descriptive of the experience of Blacks, gays, women and other disenfrancised groups in America...