Word: suleiman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Barbara E. Johnson (tenured last year), and Associate Professor Jean-Marie Apostolides (coming up for tenure in the next several years) and Suleiman are all the result of Brody's search for new blood...
...Suleiman at 44 the oldest of this group serves as the department's unofficial liaison with France. "She is our link to the contemporary French literary scene," says Brody, adding. "She is really up to date and in touch with what is going on there...
...offshoot of this role is that Suleiman regularly gets visiting French literary figures to come and lecture at Harvard. "I happen to enjoy it," she says, adding that the role was not foisted upon...
...Suleiman says she will travel to Paris to maintain these contacts during the second half of her year-long sabbatica, which began this week. The main project of her leave of absence will be a book tentatively titled The Problems of Avant Garde Writing. The work is intended to complement her last book Authoritarian Fictions, which analyzed the political and ideological "message" novels against which the avant-gardists are rebelling...
...these avant-garde groups is the "new French feminists," to whose ideas Suleiman is very sympthetic. As a member of the Women's Studies Committee. "She has made a really important contribution," says Assistant Professor of Government Ethel Klein. Suleiman and Professor of Hindu Religion Diana L. Eck "are concerned about women on campus trying to set role models and being taken seriously," Klein adds...