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...wants to portray the relation of the Old World and the New," Donald L. Fanger, a professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, noted adding that Fuentes is extremely well-versed in European literature, especially French fiction...
While there is no official Harvard policy regarding academic refugees, most dissidents currently at Harvard credit individual departments or professors with smoothing their path to Cambridge. In the case of Polish poet Stanislaw Baranczak--now an associate professor of Slavic Languages--Professor Donald Fanger, then chairman of the Slavic department, contacted Baranczak directly in Poland in 1978 to recruit him as a replacement for a retiring professor. Baranczak immediately encountered difficulty in obtaining his exit visa, but he kept in contact with the department for three years and through six unsuccessful visa applications...
...academics feeling the pinch, "It is understandable that a university would favor American citizens to reduce the tensions of the job market," he says, adding that "American natives have certain advantages in getting tenure more quickly than scholars from Eastern Europe, for example." At some universities, American-born Slavic scholars have been preferred for tenure over Polish refugees with weak English skills. In matters of tenure, "There shouldn't be an exception for people from other countries," Baranczak says. Tai agrees: When you think of someone for an academic position, he says, "you think of his qualities, not his biography...
...American Literature Daniel Aaron, Porter Professor of English Morton W. Bloomfield, Porter Professor of Fine Arts Sydney J. Freedberg, Wales Professor of Sanskrit Daniel H. H. Ingalls '36, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature Harry T. Levin '33, Robinson Professor of Mathematics Lynn H. Loomis, and Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature Albert B. Lord...
...group will also participate in a rally in downtown Boston on May 1 in response to a call by Solidarity for sympathy demonstrations, Beth Holmgren, a fifth-year graduate student in the Slavic Department and a member of HRSSS said yesterday...