Word: masten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stephen J. Greenblatt, one of the foremost Renaissance scholars, who this year accepted a full-time professorship at Harvard, said he supported Masten's appointment and regrets the decision by the University...
...praised Masten's scholarship, which combines "the history of sexuality and the history of textuality in the 17th century...
Last night, Masten said he was "very happy to have had strong support from the chair and from my Renaissance colleagues...
Many professors at Harvard and other universities said Masten's case would damage Harvard's already-struggling effort to attract the best young professors and would destroy the morale of junior faculty in the English department, who had high hopes that he would receive tenure here...
...Masten said he regrets that Harvard, "through a failure to tenure from within, simply let evaporate the intellectual vibrancy represented by a list that includes Phil Harper, Meredith McGill, Wendy Motooka and Lynn Wardley. It's a distinguished diaspora...