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...that since she does work on Africa, teaches history, and is a woman, she will bring a different perspective to the council. She joins fellow historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who is vice-chair of the council.In addition to Schmid and Elkins, the new council will include English professor Louis Menand, art historian Irene J. Winter, chemist Eric N. Jacobsen, historian of science Sarah Jansen, and scientist Ann Pearson. Menand, the Bass Professor English and American Literature, joins the council after having served on the Harvard College Curricular Review’s Committee on General Education. A member of so-called...
...subject have read it and enjoyed it,” he added.Many of the students also highly praised their advisers, reflecting the aspect of the award that is teaching-driven.Amelia E. Atlas ’06 said of her adviser, Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, that “from the get-go he was the perfect person for me to be working with,” on her thesis entitled “At the Critical Crossroads: Lionel Trilling and the Transformation of the Public Intellectual.”“He gave...
...Romance languages and literature and of comparative literature, wrote that she is “very keen” to continue Tartar’s efforts to develop general education classes in the humanities, like the course on odysseys to be offered next fall by English professors Louis Menand and Stephen J. Greenblatt...
...foster will be a welcome change from the overwhelming size of many foundational courses. While many of these proposed courses are sure to be enticing––a class on odysseys to be co-taught by Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt is a promising example––we can only hope that a sufficient number of similarly exciting courses will be offered concurrently, so as to ensure that small class size remains a signature feature of these gateway...
...will be courses that bridge between the Core and whatever we have when we have it,” Tatar said. Most of the courses are not fully developed yet, but a few will likely be launched next year. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt are planning to co-teach a course next fall on odysseys, which will include texts ranging from Homer’s “Odyssey” to Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Genealogy of Morals...