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...Until recently, the reputation of Stevenson's Pacific writings was in similar tatters. Growing up in Apia as a boy, and later on scholarship in New Zealand, Albert Wendt recalls reading Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde "like every other young person, but I never considered him an important writer." Seeking to reposition his work as rich and revelatory, Wellington University's Roger Robinson last year published Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings. "Together they form a contribution to the literature in English of the Pacific, in five genres, that still stands unmatched," he concludes. So in this postcolonial...
...colleagues have been enormously impressed with his scholarship and his skills...
...stumbling upon a whole palace complex in the Mehrauli district of South Delhi that was being demolished, Thakur had a eureka moment. "I thought, 'This is our history. This is who we are. We've got to take this seriously.'" She trained as a conservationist in Rome, won a scholarship to the archeology school at England's University of York, then returned home a quarter of a century ago to use her restoration skills and to help set up the country's only degree-level conservation course. Thakur has trained 120 students at the School of Planning and Architecture...
...these positions, Buchloh established himself as one of the most important names in postwar art scholarship. His scholarly writings seek to reconcile the differences between formalism and historicism, two disciplinary approaches that are often seen as being at odds with each other...
...March, Hoxby responded by publishing a new defense of her scholarship. And in a recent interview, she speculated that the dispute was part of a larger issue of “race and gender bias” in higher education. Hoxby is black, while both Rothstein and his dissertation adviser at University of California, Berkeley, Professor David Card, are white...