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...Three Columns Gallery—the art showcase near the Mather dining hall and across from the Junior Common Room—earns particular admiration from McDonald, a French language and literature and comparative literature professor who studies literature??€™s relationship with art and the social sciences...
During her tenure as divisional dean, Sorensen—also the Rothenberg professor of Romance Languages and Literature and of Comparative Literature??€”has weathered the worst financial crisis in decades, while simultaneously commanding the respect of her colleagues and maintaining the strength of the arts and humanities. Earlier this spring, the division garnered two new English professors from Columbia despite steep reductions in the number of searches authorized by the central administration at Harvard...
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar—who teaches a course on childhood literature??€”traced the cultural history of the Little Red Riding Hood story while speaking about the malleability of child fairy tales...
...page and the frenetic pace of contemporary life is greater today than for any previous generation. Technology intensifies the interior world of self-reflection found by reading literature because it is so different than the rest of our lives. Paradoxically, the current technological age heightens the particular power of literature??€”making books truly indispensable to our generation...
...explanation to this issue, but I think there are valid intellectual and emotional reasons why books often fail to engage with young readers that run far deeper than shortened attention span or the temptations of Facebook. Attempting to understand the multifaceted roots of this trend is critical for comprehending literature??€™s role in the future...