In 2014, Professor Jeanette McVicker published "Rethinking revolution: American youth and political subjectivity," in Postcolonial Studies, 17:1, 76-89. His most recent contribution to EBR is “I read because it is absurd,” which can be viewed at here. The law has meant that the Class of 2007 can now be taught by members of the Class of 1947. Report Copyright Infringement, Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Photograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and Communications, Emma Dench, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Photograph coutresy of Harvard University, Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications; background by iStock, Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications, The Pandemic’s “Perfect and Terrible Storm”. Vendler first encountered Seamus Heaney’s work during a visit to Sligo, Ireland, in 1975, and quickly became his most eloquent American critical champion. Happy Birthday In Greenlandic, Harvard Forms Committee on Renaming Principles, Harvard University Digital Accessibility Policy. “I have been teaching since 1959, not simply at Harvard, and I have enjoyed my teaching, but I have felt that I have done what I wanted to do in terms of teaching grad students and undergraduates. He was also one of the foremost spokesmen for the Southern tradition, not only in literature, but in values and politics. Both Cathy and Kristen are graduates of the Fredonia English Department. When Fitzgerald, writing in the 1920s, had Nick Carraway stumble into a vast library stocked with “absolutely real” books whose pages hadn’t been cut, the detail was intended to convey, quite literally, volumes about Gatsby’s habits of mind.The limited-edition art book for years benefited from this outlook. The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus. (To augment his passion projects, Hoyem takes commissions for private printings.) Klemperer led a freshman seminar on spectroscopy last year—which is offered again this spring—for which he offered tours of some of Harvard’s laboratories. “The challenge for the University is how to encourage those who, for genetic or environmental reasons, have powers that are fading, to retire to make room for younger more vibrant colleagues while both obeying the law and allowing them to continue to enjoy the services of distinguished and uplifting scholars,” Knowles says. In fall 2013, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), announced Professor Susan Spangler as there speaker for their 2013 NCTE Annual Convention in Boston. Daniel Schrag and David Keith: Can Solar Geoengineering Help Fight Climate Change? In her introduction, Vendler explores the poems as evidence of a similar dance between the speaker’s ordering intelligence and the free play of his imagination. I felt that I would like to now concentrate on reading and writing and publishing as well as other things like traveling with my wife.”. At one point, Hoyem, designing an edition of The Great Gatsby, wrote to the architect Michael Graves, M.Arch. Taking on the problem of how to present Stevens to people, or how to present Yeats. After that, it declined somewhat, with one reviewer, Helen Vendler, declaring in 1969 that “while Tate was trying ... to counter what he considered a cult of rationalistic positivism, he became the high‐priest of an arcane sect, an anti‐cult.”.

On Oct. 17, 1986, Congress amended the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, making it illegal for most employers to set mandatory retirement ages and requiring them to give equal employment protection to elderly workers. “I took no notes because nothing was ever really said—he left everything in our hands,” she says. Even before the 1986 law went into effect, the University took proactive measures to address the predicted effects of the law. There’s now the responsibility not only of perfection but of selection—what to publish at a time when so much may be worthy of attention. Like her teacher, Vendler is now known not only as a guardian and expositor of the poetic classics (her dazzling, line-by-line study of all of Shakespeare’s sonnets is today considered the definitive guide through the Bard’s poetry) but as a prescient arbiter of contemporary esteem. She married (and later divorced) the philosopher Zeno Vendler, with whom she had one son. He refused to go along with those critics who insisted that literature had to be viewed within its historic and social context. “I hope we all have some degree of good taste.”.

“I decided some time ago that when I reached the age 70, I would retire,” says Iriye, who also chairs the department. Photo collage by Harvard Magazine/JC. His critical works included “Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas” (1936), “Reason in Madness” (1941), “The Man of Letters in the Modern World” (1955), and “Essays of Four Decades” (1969). 1948: Helen Maud Cam becomes Harvard’s first female tenured professor.