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...stature. The VES department is still recovering, both internally and in public perception, from the firing of former chair Ellen Phelan in spring 2001. Phelan, a distinguished painter who brought in top New York artists, was replaced by Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, an English scholar with no formal background in the practice of visual arts. Now that the VES is having its renowned film archive taken away—just three years after a shakeup in its top teaching staff and again without consultation or consent—it should not be difficult for Kirby and other...
...condition of anonymity, said that Jenkins, a senior lecturer at VES who has overseen the collection since 1999, was likely to leave the University. The employee did not know whether Jenkins had tendered his resignation yet, and Jenkins declined to comment for this story. Tom R. Gunning, a film scholar at the University of Chicago who has been in contact Jenkins and sent Kirby a letter attacking the move last week, said he believed Jenkins had been asked to step down from his position as Cavell curator of the Archive. Jenkins currently retains his office and title, but control...
Kirby, who is also the Geisinger professor of history and a noted scholar of modern China, said during his time away from Harvard, he spoke with alumni groups in Hong Kong, Taipei, Los Angeles and San Francisco. His trip to Asia was appropriately timed to coincide with Chinese New Year celebrations...
...She’s a major pioneering scholar of American women’s history,” he said. “She’s already begun to attract a number of graduate students who want to study with...
...made a contribution to Japanese culture that has far outlasted the conquests of his triumphant predecessors. So argues Donald Keene, the distinguished American scholar and leading interpreter of Japanese civilization, in his elegant, incisive new biography, Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan. The arts in 15th century Japan were (with a few exceptions such as Noh drama) self-conscious imitations of the cultural achievements of China. Keene painstakingly builds the case that much of the aesthetic sensibility that modern Japanese people now think of as being especially Japanese can be traced to the exquisite...