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Comparing Rowling to yesterday’s Class Day speaker, Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke ’75, Professor Maria Tatar, who teaches a course on childhood, said she thinks Rowling will deliver “a witty, inspiring talk that steers clear of the subprime crisis and gas prices but will still engage with tough, real-world issues...
...would be myopic to downplay Rowling’s “extraordinary” impact, Tatar said, even if it is one different from that of political or economic figures who typically speak at Commencement...
...want to spend the semester reading fairy tales in an attempt to recapture childhood idylls, try Literature and Arts A-17: “Childhood: Its History, Philosophy, and Literature,” taught by Germanic Languages and Literatures professor Maria Tatar...
...Studying childhood challenges us to think about how to provide opportunities—educational and environmental—for children,” Tatar wrote in an e-mail. “In studying what Lewis Carroll called ‘fabulous monsters,’ we also learn quite a lot about adults and how they have framed and contained childhood...
...class] offers a chance to ‘go back,’ Tatar said, “and also to reflect on the educational challenges that face us in local and global terms...