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These honors would be impressive on any resumé—but they’re the all the more remarkable considering that Tribe arrived on the shores of California in 1947, not knowing a word of English...
...surprised at all,” Kincaid said of her mentee’s book deal. “She was one of my best students.” That’s profound praise considering that Kincaid, a former staff writer for the New Yorker who now teaches English as well as African and American Studies at Harvard, is herself an award-winning author...
African and African American Studies: If you haven’t taken an Af-Am class yet, this is the semester to start. Glenda Carpio’s two new classes, Af-Am 112: “Black Humor” and English 176x “Black Women Writers” are garnering rave reviews, and word is, she’s developed quite the following on campus. Tommie Shelby’s Af-Am 128 “Black Nationalism” is also supposed to be quite good, but may be intended for the more serious scholar...
...English: The big name courses are all next semester (hello, Faulkner), but there’s still some gems to be had this fall. Try Philip Fisher’s English 178x “Modern American Novel” on for size; it’s welcoming to students from all backgrounds, and has a reading list that spans the century, from House of Mirth to Lolita to White Noise. Anything Matthew Kaiser is teaching is always worth a semester (or five) as well; this time it’s English 154 “19th Century English Poetry?...
...spring term,” Kenen wrote in an e-mail. If a department misses the fall deadline, it will likely have to wait until after Feb. 15 for consideration in the spring. Sixteen departments have already submitted secondary proposals to the EPC; astronomy, Celtic languages and literature, classics, English and American literature and language, engineering and applied sciences, folklore and mythology, Near Eastern languages and civilizations, government, history, linguistics, math, organismic and evolutionary biology, philosophy, Sanskrit and Indian studies, Slavic languages and literatures, and visual and environmental studies, according to Kenen. Several of these departments plan to offer more...