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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, literary critic and scholar Louis Menand will leave his current post at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) to join Harvard’s faculty next spring, top English department officials said—with a prestigious named chair and a Core class likely to come soon after...
Enthusiastically admired by his academic colleagues, Menand, who was unavailable for comment, is a frequent contributor to such popular forums as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. His book The Metaphysical Club, published in the summer of 2001, earned glowing praise from accomplished scholars and casual readers alike for its portrait of a loose group of American intellectuals after the Civil War—including such luminaries-to-be as Henry and William James and Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Menand, on the contrary, is something of an intellectual celebrity...
...Metaphysical Club was hardly his first taste of fame—a fame which extends to Harvard’s students as well as its top English faculty. Among hundreds of publications and press mentions in the last five years, Menand published “The Thin Envelope” in the pages of the New Yorker this April...
...think it will be a very nice addition to have a figure like Menand, if he accepts the appointment, who is so networked into the contemporary scene of arts and letters.” Buell said. “We don’t think of ourselves as an ivy tower operation, we think of ourselves as serious scholars who want to communicate beyond the academy as well as inside...