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...professors stressed the importance of implementing an ethnic studies curriculum in a discussion at Sever Hall yesterday evening. Seventeen students gathered to hear Glenda R. Carpio—an associate professor of African and African-American Studies—and Jigna Desai—a visiting associate professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department—praise a newly-proposed ethnic studies program, which they said would allow students to discuss questions of racial and ethnic identity in an academic setting. “People end up talking in dorm rooms or over this kind of food, which...
...author but waves the idea away, viewing his alma mater as a logical step towards such writing; it was children’s literature, after all, that awoke his love of learning.“In the beginning there were stories,” says Germanic Languages Professor Maria Tatar, chair of the Folklore and Mythology committee and one of Kimel’s mentors. “There wasn’t a generational divide.” Tatar’s popular course Literature and Arts A-17: “Childhood: Its History, Philosophy, and Literature?...
Robert J. Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis, also commended Sebelius’s bipartisan reputation. He said that he and many of his health policy students felt Sebelius was an excellent speaker choice and looked forward to hearing about her policy suggestions as well as her experience in public service...
...while fulfilling his pre-med requirements. As a freshman, Iweala planned to concentrate in economics. But after some time in his first Economics 10 lecture, a thoroughly bored Iweala walked out to catch the last 20 minutes of another course on his shopping list. It was led by English Professor Steven Greenblatt. Iweala had no idea who the renowned theorist and Shakespeare scholar was, but the way he talked about Chaucer made it “seem like the most incredible thing to read on the earth.” Iweala was hooked. After switching to English, Iweala stuck...
...helped focus her academic career. “I wanted to write a creative thesis and the only way I could do that was in English, so I knew I wanted to be an English major and get certain grades,” she says. Under the guidance of Professor Jamaica Kincaid, Ganeshananthan completed her creative thesis. Seven years and about 150 pages later, she turned it into her first novel, “Love Marriage.” Before her career in fiction took off, however, Ganeshananthan became editor of her high school newspaper, and after enrolling at Harvard...