Word: suleiman
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...What constitutes scholarship has changed,"said Susan R. Suleiman, professor of romance andcomparative literatures and a key proponent of theestablishment of the Women's Studiesconcentration. She added that hirers should beopen-minded because many women and minoritycandidates are young and have been taughtdifferently...
...Women's Studies depends for its life on the willing co-operation of the other departments," says Professor of Romance Langauges and Comparative Literatures Susan R. Suleiman, who chaired the Women's Studies committee for three years. "It is important that departments live up to their vote." She says that the concentration could not have passed eight years ago because there were not enough appropriate course offerings in other departments...
...recently the History Department denied Assistant Professor of History Catherine Clinton promotion to an associate professorship. "Any history department which doesn't have a Women's Studies professor, looks as ridiculous as one that doesn't teach the French Revolution," Suleiman says, adding that pressure to keep up with other universities would ensure that the Harvard history department would have a scholar on the history of women in America...
Harvard's Romance Languages Department has "a strong emphasis on linguistics and symbolism which is good, but a literature department should see farther than that," he said at the time. Professor of Romance Languages Susan Suleiman agrees that Harvard's department emphasizes theory. "The department is very interested in literary theory. Professor Apostolides has been especially interested in the relationship between history and literature, and it is true that other professors are not," she says...
Making more appointments may be essential to raising the quality of the department. Suleiman says, "It will be very good and important that we get new and dynamic people because we have been understaffed...