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...Damrosch is already the instructor of one of the most popular non-Core courses at Harvard, the 227-student English 185: “Wit and Humor.” Now Damrosch, who holds the Berenbaum chair in literature, could soon add another impressive credential to his intimidating curriculum vitae: this year’s National Book Award for Nonfiction. Damrosch is the author of “Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius,” one of five nominees for the prestigious award. Damrosch—who has already introduced hundreds of Harvard students to the world of Rousseau...
Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors teaches courses on American and African American literature, while Bernbaum Professor of English and American Literature and Language Leo Damrosch teaches versions of his Harvard courses, Literature and Arts A-72, “The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self,” and English 185, “Wit and Humor...
Woods, however, prefers the Prague dry-cleaner joke to Damrosch’s—his is funnier, he writes in an e-mail, because “it is not hypothetical, like the joke you ask me to comment on from Leo Damrosch...
...Damrosch wasn’t impressed. He says the line is too much like that infamous American general in Vietnam’s remark: “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” Rather than echoing an imperialist, Damrosch takes a good-hearted jab at his colleagues over in Jefferson Hall with this offering...
...Damrosch contends that what makes his joke amusing is the physics student’s ability to laugh at himself. Self-demeaning humor, says Damrosch, is “a way of diffusing the sense that you take yourself too seriously,” a fact he hopes most Harvard students understand...