Word: menander
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...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...
...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...