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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...
...senior faculty position has also been offered to Professor Louis Menand of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, who has not yet decided if he will accept the offer. Menand, who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books...
...Menand accepted, he would join three new assistant professors in 20th century studies next year...
...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...