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This month I am reading the Inquiries of Herodotus with 15 students and a colleague in Middlebury College’s Classics department. I say that I am reading Herodotus rather than teaching Herodotus because—unlike my colleague, who brings his knowledge of Greek language and literature??€”I have never studied the Inquiries before. I am reading it fresh, just as are almost all of our students. Of course, I could have read the book by myself, but as any teacher knows, the best way to study a book that deserves careful reading is to teach...
Though he preferred interacting with small groups, Kelleher’s classes on Irish history and Irish literature??€”especially his class on Yeats and Joyce—drew a wide student audience...
Reynolds’ intellectual curiosity—with interests ranging from music, and contemporary history to literature??€”contributed to his prowess as an editor, Gibbons said, adding that his colleague also possessed incredible skill as a writer...
Jhumpa Lahiri is well known as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her debut short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies and her recent bestseller The Namesake. She sets her stories mainly in the Cambridge area and is one of literature??€™s most promising young talents. Her only competition might come from her co-reader Lan Samantha Chang, who has received lavish praise for her own debut work Hunger. 7 p.m. MIT, Rm. 10-250, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
...course, many small seminars pop up in our curriculum, although they are reserved for a select few. Those of us in small concentrations with an emphasis on one-on-one learning—I’m in history and literature??€”have myriad opportunities to get to know professors, to sit around a small table and debate and to write 20-page papers on original topics with original research. But many of my upperclass friends in larger concentrations lament that they haven’t had a small discussion class since their freshman seminar...