Word: menand
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...Damrosch’s words, Menand is “a highly visible and public individual.” But English Department Chair Lawrence Buell said he is not at all concerned that Menand’s prominence will distract from his scholarly work or his teaching at Harvard—indeed, he says it will be an immense boon...
...both inside the academy and well beyond its walls,” Buell said, linking this switch-hitting to a Harvard tradition. “Harvard is a place where many faculty, not all but many, find themselves speaking to wider publics because of the centrality of the place. Menand already does that...
...Elisa New, the English professor who led the search committee which chose Menand, hailed his “erudition” along with “a great deal of dash” in an e-mail...
Marc Dolan, an English professor who has worked with Menand at CUNY, phrased his high opinion of Menand’s scholarly worth more bluntly...
...Menand is also well-known for another kind of boundary-straddling: the energetic interdisciplinarity of his work...