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...there is one more key difference between 1990 and today. The students of 1990 today can see a burgeoning Afro-American Studies department, one which has recently tenured another prominent professor and which has hosted high-profile visitors like Spike Lee and novelist Jamaica Kincaid...
Gates said the English Department and Afro-American Studies Department will probably ask Kincaid to enter into a "multiple-year" contract as a visiting lecturer. She said last year that she was unlikely to ever serve in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences except as a visitor...
Last semester, Kincaid taught Afro-American Studies 132z., "Domestic Life in Literature," and a fiction section of English Car, a creative writing class...
Although Gates was not specific on what courses Kincaid might offer if she comes back, he said she would likely teach in creative writing again...
Gates said Kincaid's presence will be another indication of the University's commitment to diversity in its faculty. Yesterday, The Crimson reported that FAS will give tenure to Evelyn Brook Higgenbotham, a scholar of Afro-American religious history at the University of Pennsylvania. As of now, she will be the only Black woman with tenure in FAS when she arrives in fall...