Word: terada
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...Terada only received her Ph.D. from Boston University last year. But Terada, who is in the middle of a one-year appointment as lecturer in Afro-Am, has earned the respect of her Harvard colleagues and students with both her scholarship and her teaching skills...
...have nothing but good things to say about her," says Bonnie Costello, an associate professor of English at Boston University who advised Terada's disertation. Costello says that Terada has a "quiet nature" but exudes warmth and self-confidence. "At B.U.," says Costello, "she was a great success as a teacher...
This year at Harvard, Terada teaches Afro-Am's junior humanities tutorial, a task which allows her to share with students her expertise in Carribean post-colonial poetry. Terada takes a particular interest in the work of Carribean poet Derek Walcott, and espouses a multicultural approach to the study of North and South American literature. In fact, Terada is a poet herself, applying her scholarly work to the creative process...
Barbara Johnson, the chair of Harvard's Afro-Am department, says that as the leader of the junior humanities tutorial in Afro-Am, Terada has been "very devoted to the students." Johnson also speaks highly of Terada's scholarship...
...Terada's talents have led some Afro-Am concentrators to recommend that Harvard offer her a junior professorship. Terada, in fact, applied for a junior position here, but could not wait through Harvard's long selection process, and instead accepted a junior professorship with the University of Michigan's English Department...