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On May 5, the delegation is sponsoring a program focusing on the country, its political situation and its president. Speaking will be Evans Paul, the mayor of Porte-au-Prince, whom Reeves described as "an activist on the behalf of democracy and change in Haiti,"
The History and English Departments have been the most noticeable, however, perhaps because of the large number of undergraduate concentrators in each one. The American field was hardest hit in each department. English Department Chairman Joel Porte admits that a student who wants to study America at Harvard is "in...
Porte calls the present situation in the department "screwball." He adds, "The preponderance of students are in the 19th and 20th century British and American literature. But we are very weak in American literature."
Next year, after Emerson expert and English Chairman Joel Porte leaves the University to accept a fulltime post at Cornell University next year, the department will have only one full-time Americanist on the faculty. Professor of English Sacvan Bercovitch, who was lured away from Columbia University in 1983, will...
Bercovitch was the last senior level Americanist appointed in the department until Visiting Professor of English Phillip Fisher, an expert in 19th and 20th century literature at Brandeis University, received and accepted an offer this year. Porte called this appointment "imperative."