Beauvoir as intellectual, politico, sexual theorist
Simone de Beauvoir would likely have had a lot to say at a slightly belated 100th anniversary of her birth on Feb. 20 at the Barker Center as a collection of great minds gathered to discuss her great...
View ArticleDamrosch named professor of comparative literature
David Damrosch, a scholar of world literature, has been appointed professor of comparative literature in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1, 2009. Damrosch, 56,...
View ArticleAmanda Claybaugh named professor of English
Amanda Claybaugh, an expert on 19th century novels and on reformist writings from the United States and abroad, has been named professor of English at Harvard, effective July 1. Claybaugh is currently...
View ArticleTeaching as ‘a secular pulpit’
When David Damrosch was in ninth grade, a teacher gave him a copy of the novel “Tristam Shandy” because she thought it would appeal to his sense of humor. “I was blown away by it,” he said. “Tristam...
View ArticleClaudio Guillén
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 1, 2011, the following Minute was placed upon the records. Claudio Guillén was born in Paris, and was brought up partly in that city. His...
View ArticleAnother Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea
Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature Svetlana Boym explores the cross-cultural history of the idea of freedom, discusses its...
View ArticleDorrit Cohn, literature scholar, 87
Dorrit Cohn ’45, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus, died on March 10. She was 87. Cohn came to Harvard in 1971. A scholar of German and comparative literature, Cohn was one of three...
View Article‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope
A large-scale, audio-video installation about the fragility of human life can be hard to watch. And the artists behind the event designed it that way. Shot on a smartphone through a handheld...
View Article3 takes on dealing with uncertainty
In this time of profound uncertainty, society can be sure of one thing: more uncertainty. The seemingly opaque path forward for us, individually and collectively, was the Gazette’s topic with three...
View ArticleAAPI students use their voices in The Wave Magazine
This past spring, Eric Zhou and Jerrica Li launched The Wave, a new, student-run, pan-Asian literary and arts magazine, with the goal of bringing people together to celebrate art and identity. Their...
View ArticleExiled poet from 8 A.D. became Muhua Yang’s senior thesis
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. In 8 A.D., Emperor Augustus mysteriously banished the poet Ovid from Rome to the shores of the Black Sea in what is...
View ArticleHarvard’s Theater, Dance & Media marks fifth anniversary
In the years since Theater, Dance & Media (TDM) launched in fall 2015 as Harvard’s 49th official concentration and an academic home for performance pedagogy and arts education on campus, almost 40...
View ArticleHarvard professor takes readers on literary adventure
Like so many people, David Damrosch found his travel plans upended by COVID in the spring of 2020. But Damrosch, chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and founder of the University’s...
View ArticleNovelist Elif Batuman returns to Harvard
A lot can change between the first and second year of college — academic pursuits, friendships, romantic desire. In her new novel, “Either/Or,” Elif Batuman ’99 explores these transitions through the...
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