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...Luis Fernandez-Cifuentes, who specializes in 19th century Spanish literature, rejected a Princeton counter-offer and will come to Harvard in the fall to fill the spot left vacant by the late Professor Stephen Gilman...
Scholars at Harvard and other universities said the appointment of Fernandez-Cifuentes, who has been a tenured professor at Princeton since 1983, comes at a time when few candidates are available for Romance language posts...
...There are not enough to go around as it were--so we've been competing directly with Harvard in quite a few cases," Craddock said. He said that Berkeley had not sought to tenure Fernandez-Cifuentes...
Francois Rigolot, chairman of Prin- ceton's Romance languages and literaturesdepartment, said the Harvard-bound scholar will bemissed. "I think [Fernandez-Cifuentes] wouldattract many top graduate students in Spanish.He's full of energy and intellectual curiosity. Hewill be a loss to our department, but I understandhis decision perfectly," Rigolot said...
...Fernandez-Cifuentes said he strongly consideredremaining at Princeton, which countered Harvard'sbid by offering a prestigious endowed chair...