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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Assistant Professor of History Patricia Nelson Limerick will teach her last classes of the popular History 1609b. "The American West, 1850-1950," and History 7lb. "Modern America," this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Westering | 4/8/1983 | See Source »

...accepted an offer to teach at the University of Colorado and will move to Boulder after she takes a year off to write a book about American frontier history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Westering | 4/8/1983 | See Source »

Limerick said yesterday she expects to teach a Western history course similar to History 1609b and that she will probably be offered tenure after spending some time at Colorado teaching and researching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Westering | 4/8/1983 | See Source »

Although this day's teaching load is particularly heavy (and larger than most graduate students'), Bergvall says she loves to teach and would ideally like to become a professor of linguistics. While there are far more jobs in fields such as "teaching" computers language, she says she doesn't want "to spend my life working with machines...

Author: By Dean R. Madden, | Title: A Scholar's World | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

...point of plain fact, a teacher of literature may do several quite different things, especially these days when universities house their own schools of thought on the subject. Some teach the formal aspects of literature, some the sociology of literature, some the politics. There are those who teach because literature tells them what it means to be human; others who hold that literature means whatever one wishes it to mean; still others who say it means nothing at all. Defenders of each fort sometimes make the newspapers, where, in argument with one another, they sound like crazed religious warriors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Odd Pursuit of Teaching Books | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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