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University of Pennsylvania legal scholar Elizabeth Warren has been appointed the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, University officials announced yesterday...
World-renowned Dante scholar Lino Pertile will almost certainly teach at Harvard next fall, sources said yesterday...
...Italian-born scholar currently chairs the Italian department at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, but he was a visiting professor at Harvard last year. Although he specializes in Dante and medieval literature, he is also interested in contemporary Italian literature, he said...
Gewanter helps students take their five-minute gags and coax them into sustainable plots. He refers frequently to Aristotle's Poetics and quotes obscure Latin profundities like a Zen master turned Classics scholar. Than in the same breath, he'll praise SNL's stalker sketches. As one of his students comments, "He's very well versed in literature, but he keeps his critically-trained eye to pop culture...
...motivations coming from within, not being driven by the expectations of a lineage of ancestry and by the exigencies of a genetically-determined social station? Why can't any of these students justify their choices on the intrinsic merits of studying to be a doctor, engineer or ethnic studies scholar...